Hello Everyone! I am a senior in High School about to graduate and am very tempted to drop the idea of going to College and dedicate the next four years of my life to working full time and saving all of my money to pu...

I just completed an almost simultaneous close on two different properties. On Friday I closed on 36.4 acres of vacant farmland. This past Monday I closed on a 3bd / 2ba house on 1 acre.
I want to turn the 36 acres i...

I wrote an article for the BP Blog asking a question about real estate appraisers and what role they are playing in holding down real estate values: http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2012/07/18/are-appraisers-pa...

Hi this is Swanny,Please realize that single family, duplexes, triplexes and quads are valued based on Comparative Values or commonly known as Comps.  You are at the mercy of comps when you buy, sell, or refinance the...

I'm just about to close on my first rental property (house-hacking a duplex in a small town outside of San Diego, CA).  The previous Landlord raised rents 3-5% every year on this property, so it is currently rented fo...

My first (stressful) flip :)The house is a 1,875sqft 4br/2ba with a front yard, back yard, carport, porch and back patio with built-in firepit. Comp average days on market is between 36-43 for this area of town.My hou...

Hey BP!So I live in OKC and I am in a conundrum. I want to househack, but I am having three issues. 1) Very few fourplexes are on sale in OKC. I can generally find only 1 to 3 in a 50 mile radius.2) Of those 1 to 3 fo...

I had been powering through bp podcasts and feeling my oats, so yesterday I went to an auction of a small trailer park just to see what it would go for. (I had previously seen it with the broker but they were asking t...