I'm going through the process of assessing and making an offer on a multi-tenant building in Oakland.My main concern is that all the tenants are paying well under market rate ($800 for 1br, $700 for 1br, and $900 for ...

I purchased an absentee owner list recently with the intent of mailing self written yellow letters. I discovered I could not manage enough time aside to write the letters and the cost of each letter was not much less ...

Hello everyone. I'm a brand new investor and have started looking at homes for sale in my area. I see a number of relatively low priced deals in decent areas, but many of them are condos. I ran some of them through...

I'm sitting here going through listings that my agent sent me. More accurately, going thru through the listings that are auto-generated. That led me to thinking... what exactly does my agent do to get 3% of my money...

Hi all,
I've been doing a lot of reading and research on finding other ways to buy and hold apartment properties. By other ways I mean outside of the traditional 25% down mortgages or commercial loans. So lets just p...

I wanted to get involved in land investing and made a post about it during the summer and have continued to look at it until now.I was questioning if I should trust a land guru in my area so I asked about it and got s...

Hello everyone!
New here to Bigger Pockets so let me first start off by saying this community is great. I've been aware of Bigger Pockets for the past few months of have recently started doing some serious sn...

Hi guys!My name is Ben Morand. I am currently a second-year Finance student at the University of Florida with a minor in Economics and working towards a combined Masters degree in International Business. I have been w...
Hey BPers.
I have my first unit and, to be honest, it's being sitting the last 9 months because of other business endeavors.
I'm circling back to it and my question is this (see picture).
There are 2 light fixtur...

I'm hoping the big marketing folks will chime in and provide some stats on the DEAL rate between postcards and yellow letters. I understand that yellow letters have a higher response rate, but rarely do I hear about ...