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As 2021 comes to a close and I finish my first real year as an investor, I wanted to start a post for those in the Oklahoma City area to reflect on their experience in the market this year as well as maybe their Initi...
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Hello Everyone,I am so excited and enthusiastic about joining this wonderful community! My name is Baraa Shaker, a seasoned and well-rounded Service and Operations Manager within the financial and healthcare industri...
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"You Can't Make Money Investing in Real Estate!!"I've heard this plenty of times as I'm sure many of you have as well, mainly from 1st time investors who tried it ONCE and failed, never to go for it again, or those wh...
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My name is Daniel Smith, I'm looking to learn about real estate investing. I have been doing lead generating for pre foreclosures and the investor I have been working with is unreliable and doesn't seem well funded. I...
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How long is everyone seeing between when they list their mid term rentals and when they get booked? Ours are jumping off the shelf, I'm telling clients we need more in our portfolio. I'm trying to gauge if this is a C...
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My husband and I started investing in Baltimore County, MD a little over a year ago. We purchased our first property for $58,000. We were able to rehab the property for $35K. We started the rehab with the intention...
I have been looking at some of the mid-tier cities across Ohio and have started to look heavily at the Toledo area. Has anyone purchased property in that area and had success recently? I have seen some properties for ...
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I consider myself a huge success.&Yep, I still haven't done my first deal yet.Did any of you listen to the BP Podcast with Grant Cardone? In it, he said something profound. He said, "Success is not measured by com...
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I’m sure there are seasoned Buy & Hold investors here on BP who have accumulated their wealth in small towns, C- neighborhoods, low-cost multis and SFRs, who completely disregarded appreciation as a main focus and...
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I've had some tremendous success recently in the Colorado wholesale market, almost exclusively from cold calling. I was able to bring on a larger team towards the end of 2021, and we've brought in several deals above ...