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Hey guys! Surely this has been discussed before, but figured I'd start my own thread on this topic for convenience's sake (selfish, I know haha).
Although my active real estate business is wholesaling, my goal is to...
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Because it’s hard and taking the first step in the hardest! We have money ready to go and I always wonder why people who seem to do better than us, don’t invest in RE. But the emotional roller coaster has almost don...
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A week ago, I wrote an article explaining how the millennial generation (myself included) could creatively finance a down payment for their first property. What was intended to be an informational article on BiggerPoc...
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If you were advising a new investor starting out, what would you say would be the fastest way to make a million dollars investing in real estate? When I say fast, I don't mean get rich quick. I mean the most direct ro...
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Anyone, and I really mean anyone that is doing any form of construction/rehab, a word of warning: Always buy whatever materials (lumber, cabinets, flooring, sheetrock, plumbing, tile, sprinkler system, lighting, etc.,...
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In 15 years in the biz I have not met someone who got sued and was saved by having an LLC. Every new investor gets hung up on asset protection and there is an entire industry catering to asset protection. There must b...
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I realized that I dismissed Oakland / SF / the relatively close area out of hand -- thinking it can't possibly work because the buy ins are too high, and the cash ROI is too low, but I never actually seriously investi...
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I’m a number guy. I spend countless hours on excel spreadsheets running ProFormas on every possible situation. I want to know what the BEST possible outcome is, WORST possible, projected actual outcome, forced appreci...
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We're kicking off a new project in the next week or so and it's been pretty crazy just getting to this point. The house is a 3-story, 1550 sq ft row and it's currently 3br and 1 bath. We've owned it for almost 2 month...