1) Partner w/ Experts (Credibility) - Partnering with someone that has a track record helps a ton.  My credibility as a person yes but had I said this was my first project, I'm sure my success would not have been so s...

I've been dying to get into the real estate business. I have sufficient drive, credit, income, and handymen in my life to make it happen today. My only issue right now is the huge down payment required on a rental p...

So we wholesaled our first deal and made $10k, just closed Thursday! I put it under contract and had it assigned in just a few days and it closed 30 days after I got it under contract. I got a call from a mailer we se...

Looking towards the future I decided about a year ago that real estate investing (REI) would be my chosen career path after I retire from the military. Through my learning process I have been educating my wife with ev...

Hello BP. I was hoping to get some advice from the direct mailing experts out there. I will be purchasing an address list from ListSource, and after running through their options, below is the criteria list I came up ...

I am closing on my first SFH that will eventually be rented out in Harker Heights, TX. The neighborhood and surrounding areas have tons of homes with solar panels. I am about to start running numbers on the possibilit...

We have been debating whether to jump into real estate and deal with tenants and all the other nuisances that comes with property ownership, when we have been happy making 20% in the stock market (and that's last year...

A new development out of Atlanta this week. An investor has been held liable for the exceptionally poor conditions of his properties, even though they were held by an LLC that was not under his own name. He argued tha...

First situation: Apartment was advertised at $1400 for a 2 bed/1 bath house. Prospective tenants had 2 pets and we agreed to increase rent to $1430 (15/pet). Lease was written up with the 2 pets allowed and the rent s...

Ben's latest article suggested this and he thought it would be a good forum post to check out what other people think.  Check out his article, it's a good read.  http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2014/09/02...Se...