I'm going to be hard lending money for the first time and I need some pointers. I've inspected the property with the lendee and I'm comfortable lending her 80% of the value. She's buying the property for 125k and I'm ...

So found a place for sale on CL. Actually a good area and price caught my eye. So I sent the seller an email on it. After a little info back and forth it became apparent they do not own the property. They are also NOT...

Hello everyone, for the last year and a half I have been deeply considering and researching purchasing a vacation home. When I say that I mean, I want to buy a property and be able to visit there once in awhile, b...

Hi everyone,I searched, but couldn't find anything, so am starting this post. I have rentals in decent, middle class neighborhoods, sort of upple middle of the spectrum in the area. My objective is to decrease vacanci...

A total real estate investing newbie here. I don't even know if the term "real estate investor" is a misnomer for me! I'm taking really small steps in going into this, but from what I have read, this is the path t...

A little over 3 years ago, we initiated a system on the site called 'influence'. This
Influence System was designed to reward those users who engage and give back to BiggerPockets.

At first, the system was lauded al...

Last year we tried something new. In early December, we sent both our tenants (we only had two units at the time) a Christmas card saying thank you and enclosing a $50 gift card. We did it mainly to say thank-you t...

hello all,I'm a new investor :). I'm looking at aproperty in Florida in a very nice gated neighborhood that's in foreclosure.  The property is listed on hubzu.  The property seem to be in great condition, but no inspe...

I seem to have a grasp on my end goals in life. Many of them have fallen into my lap, many of them I've worked hard for, but many of them I feel could be started now but I don't have the know how. Real estate investin...