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Hi everyone,So a little background: I'm 10 days away from selling my first real estate flip and looking at about a 150 -200k profit. The short version is I purchased a Single family ranch at auction using 100% hard ...
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Hello BP! I'm in a somewhat fun situation and I would like your input. I'm graduating college this year and got my first "real" job a couple months ago. I've lived in Wisconsin my whole life and I'm looking to chang...
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What is everyone's opinion on Harry Dent? He points out that real estate has pretty consistently gone up over most of our life times because of the baby boomers, but now that they are down-sizing and dying off, real e...
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I was looking at financing options, and I found the the "lending club" after a quick google. It sounds like a peer to peer loan service? Has anyone used it, either to lend money or borrow money? How does it work? Res...
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They would be an absolute except a few people get lucky and put everything they have into a rental property and nothing goes wrong for a year or two, giving them time to build up cash reserves. Then again a few peopl...
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Hi BP Fam! I am a newbie investor and I've been doing a lot of research, reading and podcast listening over the past couple of weeks and came across BiggerPockets along the way. Currently, my goal is to start with p...
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I am sure most of us read the "Rich Dad Poor Dad" at least one time before starting our REI journey. I eve know few who read it more than 3 times. It may be the bible to make you think differently about your job and p...
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I love the idea of becoming a successful buy and hold real estate investor. Accumulating houses for cash flow. And more houses. And more houses. And more...etc.. Thing is I've always wanted to strive to live a minimal...
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Is it me or can you no longer search forums in Bigger Pockets? There are other issues but this bugs me the most.
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