My family recently purchased a Multi-unit in Chicago (our first). The basement unit was unrented but had two bedrooms, a kitchen and bath already in place. We wanted to make the space a lot nicer to rent to a family m...

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First time poster, long time listener looking for a gut check on my strategy. My goals with real estate are to 1) make my money work harder than it would for me than if it were invested in the market, and ...

Been Pro for a couple weeks now, figured it was time to make an introduction.Hello BP community!My name is Joe McGranaghan.I'm a senior software engineer is the ecommerce space today.Also a single father of an eight y...

There are pros and cons to self-management. Some landlords are very successful. Some lose their shirts, destroy their health, and even ruin relationships. Most land somewhere in the middle.If you have experience as a ...

Hello everyone,We live in WA and are looking to invest our first rental property. We have 30k we can invest, right now we are looking at Houston and Cleveland, here is what we found and are asking for some advice or i...

Hi there,I'd like to get into real estate investing, but I live in California where the laws definitely seem to favor the tenants. I'm wondering if there is a way to work around this by investing in other states, usin...

If the purpose of an LLC is to protect my personal assets, can I forgo setting up an LLC and instead purchase personal liability insurance? Does anyone know the pros and cons of doing each? I honestly a little intimid...

I’m a 17 year old high school student in the Jackson, Mississippi area. I would like to get started in real estate soon after I turn 18 but would like to hear any tips anyone may have to get going. I’ve read many of t...

Hello, I recently left the corporate world after 20 years and decided to take a sabbatical. Ideally, I would like to not return to that world and instead, take my savings (2M) and invest it in RE as my primary source ...

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I just wanted to start and say thank you to all the developers and contributors to this website. Bigger Pockets is still relatively new to me but has taught me so much in so little time and it would not have b...