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Blame it on the holidays, consumerism season, or the purchase of my latest rehab project, but I've been thinking a lot about my relationship with spending money. I have this unhealthy relationship with healthy money m...
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Hi everyone,I live in LA and have started looking at OOS investing seriously and some of these homes I see in the midwest for example go for 80-100k turnkey ready. That's not even enough for a downpayment for a shack ...
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Hey guys. I’m looking for some advice. I have been reading about real estate investing for the past ~6 months and I really want to jump in within the next year. My wife and I currently have about 60k debt (mostly car ...
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First of all, I didn't start this thread to attack the professional tradesmen, but sometimes it gets to a point where even if you want to pay someone for a job, you end up DIYing the last 10% (or 25 or 50) of the work...
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Hey everyone! I am new to bigger pockets and relatively new to real estate investing in general. I have two rentals in the outskirts of Atlanta, GA and I am using a property management to manage these. After joining b...
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I have just decided to get into real estate investing . I am a retired engineer, 37 years at Boeing. I thought that acting as a private lender would be a good place to start. I have high six figures in saving current...
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The backstory - we have an investment property in Cape Coral Florida. Right outside of ft Meyers. We have had it for one year and it renting right at about 1%. Hurricane Ian was not good to us and cost us about $10k o...
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I'm a new investor (0 deals), and we live in Marin County, in the SF Bay Area. We are homeowners. We also have a couple hundred thousand dollars in liquid assets to invest, plus time and motivation.Seemingly our smart...