Austin S.
Wanting to buy notes from individuals
I am looking into purchasing some notes. I have a list of private mortgage lenders in my county as a starting point. Do I want to craft a letter and send it out to the note holder? That seems fairly impersonal and did...
Steven Lacy
Buy a House or keep renting and invest?
Hello, I'm a 38 year old new construction plumber who has just moved back to CA from Hawaii. I lost my house in '08 and have started completely over. I live in Santa Rosa CA. and have almost paid all of my debt of...
Matt R.
Why you want to buy in a Hipster Area & Find the next Brooklyn or Silverlake
I was reading an older post from 2013 as I do. I am not sure how many posts I have read but I feel like I have a BA in BP at this point. In one older post it talked about some new hipster areas and there were some opi...
Nate Garrett
New Rental Data for 70 Metro Areas
The National Association of Realtors just released some very useful rental data for 70 metro areas showing information like the % change of income for renters from 2009-2014, % change in number of renter households, a...
Darren Mills
Newbie from Seattle, Washington!
Hello All!Detailed profile to come shortly, just wanted to register quickly to get started on this crazy cool site! My name is Darren and I'm a novice real estate investor, I recently became an agent to expand my net...
Phil Ferranto
I'm new here, but in it for the long haul
Hi network,The gears in my mind continuously seek out good investments, real estate seems like the next logical step. I like deep value and contrarian thinking. My main business keeps me out of the country for a healt...
Brenden Mitchum
Marine Scientist Hoping to Start Multifamily Investing
Howdy fello BPrrrrs!First off, please forgive me for doing this a little backwards. I have already posted a couple of times, but am finally getting around to telling y'all a little about myself.I am a marine scientist...
Steve Smith
Dollar-Cost Averaging Applied to Rental Property Acquisition
I've been listening to @Scott Trench's new book, Set for Life, recently. Scott discusses the concept of dollar-cost averaging a bit as it relates to investing in index funds. This makes a lot of sense to me and I've...
Albert Xavier
10% Correction in Bay Area market after Tax Reform?
Hi Folks,I cannot understand why more people are not talking about this. Renter:Imagine I am a renter in Bay Area and I wan't to buy an average $1M home here in Bay Area and want to put down a decent 25%. My loan woul...
Chris Cliff
60 Day Challenge To Buy My First Apartment Building
For an embarrassingly long time "Buy an 8-12 unit apartment building" has been on my list of things to do. It has been talked about, pondered, debated but has never happened.So, my thought is to make it a 60 day chall...