I'm wondering if anyone has any advice/opinions on using whole life insurance to supplement my real estate investments. I'm currently 25 and am debating on whether or not I should set up a policy now while I'm "young"...

Why would the price have not been negotiated up $2.00 to $754,500 or down $98.00 to $754,400, a round number?   Do you know how much chaos and extra time and effort throughout the loan process correcting the sales pri...

I bought a owner occupied a 4plex. I live in the 2bed 2bath the rest are 1bed 1bath. Rents are unit 2 $550 unit 3 $600 and unit 4 $600. The are comps are $725 to $908. Units 2 and four lease has expired the end of the...

Hi all,A little background - (skip to the tldr at the bottom if you get bored) I'm mainly a buy and hold index fund investor. While I'm certainly no finance major, everything I've read about investing has led me to ke...

Ok this sounds horrible but please read it all. I just bought my son and his wife a condo here in miami. My son is a trader, he's 27 years old and he was renting a unit for $6,500/month a big waste of money imo. He...

Hi, I’m new to the Bigger Pockets Forum so I apologize if I posted this incorrectly. I was wondering if anyone heard about the Tulsa Real Estate Fund spearheaded by Jay Morrison. He’s trying to raise $50 million in a ...

Hey, BP family. I've notice as a new investor that it seem like everyone is trying too avoid D class hood. I hear a lot of negativity about it. Is their any upside with theses neighborhoods ? What's on the positive en...

Chicago is a hot market now but the State, County and City all have significant public employee pension and healthcare debt (that cannot be reduced except maybe in a bankruptcy).  Property taxes are already high, but ...

Listening to people beat up on the young folks for having their student loans paid off. Look at this people born between 81 and 96 are getting poorer while the rest of us are getting richer. What this is really sayi...

One funny thing about people is that while we are almost always well intentioned, we seem to do a lot of things that are just plain crazy. I, for example, still prefer to eat my oranges by dissecting each into their i...