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James G. Is Buying a home for idiots?
9 January 2018 | 198 replies

Hi BP. I’ve heard a lot of real estate investors, including Grant Cardone, say that buying a home is one of the worst financial decisions you can make. What is everyone’s thoughts in this matter?

I know that house ha...

Steven McPherson Who here has started from scratch?
3 August 2021 | 103 replies

Just a question for other BP members: who all on this board have started their RE business from nothing?  That means you had no money and no personal savings to put in to marketing, down payments, etc.Follow-up questi...

Jay Hinrichs So much for Millenials not buying homes and renting all their lif
10 March 2019 | 65 replies

now of course this is major media and all the slants that come with it.. just like media saying that folks are not going to buy houses and they prefer to rent..now you have the opposite  LOL  see article for your read...

Shray Patel Dropping out of college - what would you do?
24 October 2017 | 104 replies

Hey everyone,I am 20-years old at Temple University with 3 semesters left before I graduate. I recently decided to switch from studying/working in the IT industry to Real Estate. I have worked in a property management...

Erin Spradlin So What If Airbnb Is Crashing Right Now...
17 June 2020 | 79 replies

I'll try to limit my rant here, but since the Wall Street Journal published a somewhat nasty article about Airbnb investors in late April and I represent a lot of Denver Airbnb Investors and Colorado Springs Airbnb in...

Mark Ferguson Should I sell my Colorado rentals and invest somewhere else?
2 May 2016 | 238 replies

I have 15 rentals in Colorado that I have bought over the last five years. Most of the houses I purchased from $80k to $130k, made repairs and rented for $1,200 to $1,600 a month. I looked at my last couple of purchas...

Alex Silang "Biggest mistake" was to do out-of-state turnkey investing
9 March 2019 | 127 replies

So I'm in the process of looking at turnkey investing. I even made a post about it on BP but it didn't get many responses. A blogger I follow is "FIfighter". He's pretty reputable in the financial independence blogosp...

James W. $100/door debate-sell me on it
12 April 2018 | 109 replies

I see a lot of discussion with people saying they want at least $100/door but I don't really understand how it can be a good metric unless there would be a big value add opportunity with a big cash out (limiting the i...

Account Closed How Investing in the Stock Market Saps Your Wealth
13 January 2021 | 243 replies

Today, in Sept 2018 the Stock Market is at 28,000. An all time high. The average wage is $26 per hour. It takes 1,077 work hours to “buy the market”. That is, if you buy one share each of the stocks of the Dow, the co...

Heather Frusco Why is Rent still due during COVID-19?
11 September 2020 | 328 replies

I have had the opportunity to find and work with some of the best property managers (after many years) for our current properties. Over the years we have gone from me just treating them like just a service I hired to ...