Christos Dimopoulos
Young Investor in Dallas Advice on How to Get Started Needed
Hello Fellow BP Members,I am a 24 (soon to be 25) year-old aspiring Real Estate investor. I just moved to Dallas, TX with from Atlanta, GA for a fresh start. I am brand new to the area and while trying to figure out w...
Nicholas Daniels
Goal Retire at 26 (or at least have the option)
Hello BiggerPockets! My name is Nicholas, I'm from Michigan and am currently a junior in college. I've set a goal of having the option to retire at 26 years old (or just before I turn 27). I would like to have $6,000/...
Kathryn Stevens
Do you incentivize GCs? If so, how?
I know flippers sometimes write penalty phrases into contracts ("must complete by XXX or pay $/week/month"). Do you ever pay your GCs extra when they get it done on time or early? Or, are they being paid to do that al...
Jon W.
Detroit Land Bank Authority
Hello BP,Has anyone rehabbed a Detroit property under the supervision of the Detroit Land Bank Authority. I am considering a property but do not know about all of the hoops that you need to jump through in order to k...
Joshua Herald
My first flip paid off my student loans!!!
It was 2014. I had followed a girl from Columbus Ohio to Cincinnati. We were living together for a while when be both slowly realized that maybe cohabitation was not for us. So I began looking for rooms to rent.. I wa...
Huy N.
The diary of a 2nd flip
I feel guilty of not being very active on Bp lately. so this post will hopefully motivate me to become more active in the forumI recently bought an old house that will need lot of clean up and work. i paid 78k includi...
Huiya Xiao
Looking for rental property down the road - interested in Fredericksburg, VA
I joined BiggerPockets 5 or 6 years ago, but never pulled trigger on a rental property because of analysis paralysis and lack of education I guess. I looked at some townhouses near Lake Ridge, VA area even before that...
Alex Varner
Contractor requesting 50% Upfront
Hello,I have a contractor that is requesting 50% of what he quoted the job up front. It isn’t a super large sum of money, but I’m curious on what type of things I should do/look for to protect myself. As of now all I ...
Curtis Curley
Debt free, building a home, looking to invest afterwards
I spent the last 3.5 years paying off all of my debt except my home. I'll be selling my existing home in order to purchase a new live-in residence. After all of this is done, I would like to get into real estate inv...
Shiloh Lundahl
2020 Mid-year Goals Check-Up
Wow! 2020 is now half way over. Who would have thought that the country/world would be where it is today. It is not where I thought it would be. Nevertheless, here we are and it’s time to take an accounting to see whe...