Mark Robertson
Its happened: The first Crowdfunding investment that's NOT working out
ifunding seems to be the first crowdfunding portal to have an investment (actually 5 investments) not go according to plan. They have 5 fix and flip deals in Milwaukee with the Orange group that were suppose to yield...
Brandon Schlichter
Started out with $25k 5 years ago, now I have 90 rentals!
I posted this elsewhere but figured I'd share my 5+ year ongoing story of buying rental properties to encourage members here. Personal Background
Most of my childhood was spent growing up inside a tenant house on a...
Wes Blackwell
Stockton: The Last Bastion of Housing Affordability in California
After my most recent post on Realtor.com projecting Stockton to be the #4 metro market in the nation in 2018, I've received the same question over and over and over again:"But WHY Stockton? What's so great about it? A...
Kim Meredith Hampton
Service Animals, what's an owner to do?
I manage real estate for investors, and wanted to hear from the insurance brokers as to what your feel is for the growing number of "service Animals" in rental properties. The biggest concern that I have is that we ca...
David Hamilton
Unknown Truths About Financing Commercial & Multi-Family RE
Hello All,I am new to the Bigger Pockets forums but have been listening to the podcasts for several months now. Although I certainly get a TON of value from the platform already, I found that more sophisticated, nuanc...
Chris H.
Growth without SFRs? How?
Hi BP community- longtime lurker, rare poster. I've seen many, such as Ben Leybovich, decry SFR properties, but I have a hard time understanding why- from the perspective of a smaller investor.I work full time, and o...
Dylan Thomas
Seller being way too emotional?
Tell me what you think. Is this seller way too emotional? Asking price $192,000. On market for 5 days. 3 unit building. There are 3 water heaters, ALL need to be replaced. There are also 10 windows that ALL need to be...
Joshua Dorkin
Your Toughest Deal - What Was It? Share Details!
There are a lot of discussions on the site about starting out, but I find that those discussions where people share the challenges they went through on difficult deals are the best to learn from.
So . . .
What Was Y...
Bilal A.
Any High W2 earners out there?
To the High W2 earning BP members out there, what strategies have you used to decrease your W2 taxable income? Depending on what state you earn your wages, income tax rates of 40-50% are unreasonable. Most of you like...
Travis Cannon
Is 1500 enough to start in real estate?
Hello everyone. I am 20 years old and am trying to start investing and learning about it now. I graduate from college next year and would like to live below my means and invest. I have 1500 saved up and don’t know wha...