We have had a great time with the Commercial Services Desk at Lowes. They price our materials for all of our Flips, and we are utilizing very high quality products at discounts of 15% to 25% from retail. The best pa...

Hi! My name’s Maverik and I’m a 19 year old from California. I’ve been interested in investing for about 6 months now and I feel like I’ve barely scratched the surface in my Real Estate investing career. After countle...

Brain storming with a friend about short term rentals. The idea of using Conex boxes was brought up. Has anyone don’t this yet? The biggest problem that I’ve thought of so far is insurance. I contacted an agency and t...

We have completed our Flip home in the San Fernando valley area of Los Angeles and it's now for sale.  We discovered today that someone broke in last night.  It looks like they were hanging out there for a while, smok...

Hello, from Rochester Hills, MI.

I finally got around to joining after reading this forum for some time.

I learned a lot since reading bp and thought I better join the discussion.

I currently have...

Hello, I am a investor from Michigan. I just moved to the state three years ago.

First off I would like to thank everyone for the plethora of information on the BP site, truly crowd sourcing at Its finest! REI has been a long term goal of mine that got put on the back burner while starting our f...

Hi everyone, my name is Dan Haberkost and I’ve been on BP for several months but am just now getting around to introducing myself.

I was first introduced to real estate investing about a year ago by a coworker and e...

I have been doing some reading on RE investments and have decided on several areas of which I would like to concentrate on in RE investment:

1) preforeclosures
2) court house auctions
3) REOs

However, I have so far ...

Does anyone give clients a gift or something nice to make their moving day easier/better?    Or instead of a gift, do you do anything nice like drop off coffee or anything like that?