First off, I am mostly to blame myself. I had a BAD feeling about this company from the beginning but I'm desperate. Anyway, I found a house listed for 8k, went took a look,priced rehab at aprox 5-6k with comps at 35-...

Hi BP community!My name is Chris, I'm a new BP member located in the Chicagoland area, and I'm super excited to get involved in the Bigger Pockets community! The amount of information I have learned from you all over...

Yesterday I posted about how my wife and I are moving from San Francisco to Chicago and looking to do a house hack. @Brie Schmidt gave me some pretty good advice around tradeoffs between price, location, cash flow, et...

I'm trying to understand when the proper time might be to throw in the towel and jump into a short sale.We purchased for 450k in 2006 at market peak, lived in the house until 2011, and then rented it out for $1400.00 ...

Hey all, I’m under contract for a building lot in a AE Flood zone. I’m wondering how to structure my foundation. Should I do a raised foundation, engineered flood openings, or fill dirt and do a normal crawlspace. I’m...

I recently sent out a postcard that elicited some very angry responses; people obviously quite upset, 3 threats to sue, profanity, accusations of cowardice etc. 8 of the 11 messages from the mailing were angry. As a r...

I just thought I'd share a conclusion I reached after sending out my first batch of yellow letters about a month ago...

Like most new real estate marketers, I wanted to make sure my mailing was perfect and wo...

I'm looking for some good advice on what to do in this scenario.

So I have a SFH with a $700,000 purchase price and expecting to sell it for ~$760,000 (not sure what it will appraise for). The mortgage paymen...

How to Interview a Property Manager?

Hello everyone!In order to maximize our Fannie/Freddie loans, my wife and I take turns putting properties in our name. My question involves saving for down payments. Currently all of our accounts are joint, but we s...