Care Anne S.
How to determine if a neighborhood is good or bad?
Hey everyone!If you are looking to buy out of state for buy and hold properties, how do you decide if a neighborhood is 'good' or 'bad'? I've tried looking at areas via Google street view, but I know that's probably n...
Eric Justice
Buying property-All Cash
It seems that purchasing property in all cash would have the best outcome for investments. The owner would not have a mortgage. The owner would have to pay property taxes. Buying with all cash gives the owner the opti...
Graham Dersley
turnkey vs. putting together my own team (new investor)
Just listened to the recent BP podcast about out of state investing (prices are too high in my area for good cash flow). David Greene talked about finding a real estate agent, contractor, property manager etc in a t...
Joe Grebe
Basic Budget Question
This is the most basic budget question. My wife and I use Mint.com to track our finances and we just finished sitting down and looking at our spending for the year. This gives a really good place to start for a budg...
Mike McCarthy
Is Life Insurance a good idea?
I know this is like asking "are peas good" and will get a lot of "it depends" answers, but here's the basic question:If your death (and subsequent lack of cash flow) will significantly affect your family and loved one...
Scott Trench
Stocks, Bonds, Crypto, and Inflation Combine to Crush Investors
We talk about Financial Freedom here on BiggerPockets all the time, and most members of this platform invest in BOTH real estate and stocks. I think that we haven't really spent enough time emphasizing just how bad th...
Brandon Ribeiro
Am i missing something?
Ok, so I made my last post about having 12k saved up for a property. I got mixed comments- some saying that’s plenty, others saying keep saving. I just put an offer on my 3rd property and ran this one through the BRRR...
Darien Stinson
Tips for Maximizing Capital with LLC Partnership
Hello,I am creating an LLC with a business partner to buy Real Estate properties. We are looking at multi-family properties in Colorado Springs and Pueblo. We currently have around $100,000 in personal capital total....
Elliott Fisher
Curious people's difficulties in managing portfolio
Hi BP community, I'm Elliott. I live in NYC and remotely manage three SFH properties in TN. I handle all tenant & repairs mgmt, accounting & cash needs of the business. I use over 6 different software tools - ...
Brett Keller
How would BP invest 1.5 million?
I am a new investor in St. Louis and that will have about 1.5 million in cash to put into real estate by the end of 2016 early 2017. My question for BP is how would you invest the cash?We currently have 3 rental prop...