I recently watched a video in which one of the strategies besides buying Real Estate Investment properties was to use your Heloc to pay down your home mortgage because of the simple interest versus amortization schedu...

Hello everyone! New to BiggerPockets. New to investing! Live in Massachusetts, 30 minutes south of Boston. Have 30k saved up. What should I do? Single famIly flip? Single family Rent? Multi-family 2-4 owner occupy? An...

Our 45 day deadline is 1/22. The net sales amount was ~$5 million, of which ~$2 million paid off debt. A partner was handling the exchange and was considering some replacement choices that turned out to have problems....

I'd like to start this thread to share ideas & experiences so that BP can continue to grow & improve.

My 1st idea/proposal:

I think there should be a minimum amount of experience, whether its # of posts or s...

One of the real estate investors I work with most frequently came to me with an idea last week. His grandmother has a free and clear mansion in the Hamptons, NY. She offered to get a cash out refinance loan against th...

Got about $10k, and in a few months gonna have $15k. But is that enough to start out in the bay area? Housing is high over in this market, but anything is possible. Looking to house hack! Any advice?

1.Raise RentsThere’s an art form to renegotiating lease increases. The tenant must feel they are getting the best deal possible and even some perks to the deal. Discuss with the tenant about having timely maintenance ...

Did you know that you can build an apartment complex in a warehouse? That’s right, there is a strategy out there where you can have someone build your apartment building in a warehouse that will save you on time and m...

Check out this report by Morgan Stanley. Looks like institutional money is moving into real estate investor territory:

[http://myrentalportfolio.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Morgan-Stanley-SF-Report-Oct-2011.pdf]

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I am looking at setting up a self directed ira to purchase a property that was and is still currently used as a salvage yard. My Ira will be converting it to a mini storage property. Given this has been a salvage yard...