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I keep running into articles about people who live an extreme austere life styles and do not work full time. (I call dibs on idea for the reality show featuring that life style). I do not want to eat ramen noodles 6 ...
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What is you favorite solo 401K company? Why?
I see that My Solo401K.net has a very nice web site with loads of useful information.
I see that BroadFinancial.com also has a nice web site, but you have to call to lea...
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I am looking around to buy a property in or around Oakland, CA and was wondering if it is worth looking at the ones that are tenant occupied. I know Oakland is very renter friendly and you need a just cause to evict s...
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I own SFRs in Humble, specifically choosing that area to invest and live because of the lower flood risk, but haven’t bought yet this year for lack of deals meeting my strict criteria, so I have some capital.
What i...
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With only $1500 in my bank account, I made a decision to move to Las Vegas from my small town in Connecticut in July 2016. At this time, I knew the potential of investing in real estate but was unsure of exactly how t...
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Excerpt from a post I made on the stock investing forum "The Motley Fool." The audience is stock investors who are equally passionate and successful in stocks as the BP community is in REI. Many of them think going al...
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I posted a thread a few days ago called why do we invest? There were a lot of good replies on that thread with many bigger pockets members listing their goal of 5000, 10,000, 12,000, or $20,000, per month for retireme...
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Hello!First off, huge thanks to the BiggerPockets community, podcasts, tools and depth of thread topics; I wouldn't have gotten nearly anywhere close to where I am without the existence of BiggerPockets. I currently w...
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Hello,
I’m a newbie Pro member that I would self-describe as a “Bob”, meaning I have a great job, great income and great credit (as does my husband). We also have good discretionary income and a lot of equity in our p...
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Here's a 9 unit I recently completed in West Philly, it's part of a syndication I put together and it has 4 buildings total in that syndication. I sourced the vacant lots, got them permitted, got the financing lined u...