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Hi all,I've just recently begun my journey to find my first rental property, and am considering newer (10 yrs old or less), mostly-rent-ready duplexes in good neighborhoods. I have a couple of general newbie question...
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I purchased an investment property 3 months ago using Lower.com for financing. Had a very great experience with them except for one thing. We purchased as an investment property under our personal names under the guid...
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Hello BP,My name is Robin, as mentioned in the title I grew up in Liege, Belgium and have been living in the U.S. for about ten years. I went through college in Kansas and Texas, and I have been married to an amazing ...
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Hello Bigger Pockets I guess this is officially my 2nd post. My first post was about a potential deal in Spokane, WA. I ended up passing on the deal and wanted to post a real introduction and start being more involv...
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Friday is the closing and I’m getting extremely nervous. Did we buy the property low enough? Are all the updates we’re going to do make the property appraised at what we need to pull out and do it again? Will we find ...
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Hello BP Nation!I am just in the beginning phase of transitioning from a 5 year career in Tech sales to dive head first into real estate as an agent here in the SF Bay Area. I have a good friend who has had a lot of s...
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Hi, folks. I'm brand new to the Bigger Pockets community and the real estate investing game. I am unbelievably excited that I stumbled across this educational site, and would appreciate any insight to my question. I l...
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Hello! I'm going to start an Financial Independence Dallas Meetup (how is there not one already?!). Are there any financially independent people (or well into the journey) in Dallas that would be willing to share thei...
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I’m sure this question has been asked numerous times, feel free to link me to this existing topic. I’m trying to buy my first duplex or multifamily. I’ve started to get pre-approved, but I’m not thrilled with the resu...
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I was renting a room close to Elmvale shopping mall in ottawa and the owner had purchased a 3+2 bedroom 1+1 bath detached house for around 400K in spring of 2018.The house which is right next to it is sold for 565K in...