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When doing my own personal taxes, I filed the first few years on my own without any software (this was before my life got busy). It was a great way to learn how to do my taxes and most of my issues were adequately ex...
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I have never flipped a house in my life. However, through years of intense study of how to flip houses -- I have yet to find an ideal motivated seller. The term "motivated seller" is so broad that it includes mostly r...
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Hi Everybody, First things first I'm Devin, nice to meet you. Back story: I was born a Navy brat and I've become a local to the St. Louis area, for about 15 years now. I've lived all over in the surrounding counties, ...
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As a direct private lender (hard money commercial property) we are able to turn a profitable investment into a VERY profitable investment a couple of time a year by purchasing the existing note form the current lien h...
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I am looking to move my old 401k funds to Self-directed IRA.What are the criteria, I need to look for, when selecting the custodian for SDIRA ?I looked at two of them Horizontrust.com and trustetc.com as examples. I a...
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Hello there, We are newbie RE Investors, trying to figure out pretty much everything real estate related from ground zero. I have come across multiple cases where investors have used wholesaling as a stepping stone be...
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I can't seem to find anyone.
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Good morning everyone! My name is Tyler Warlow! I joined bigger pockets a while back but had to focus on paying my way through school and passing a dual major in Chemical Engineering and Paper Science Engineering. I g...
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Hi Bigger Pockets team!I am a new investor who would love to connect with other RE investors in the NYC area. My background is 7 years in Product development with experience in production and operations. I want to sta...
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Go Hawks! Any other Seattle fans here today!? Who are YOU rooting for? (and just to keep this out of the "off-topic" forum thread... I'll ask this: are YOU watching the game or working on your investing today? Why?)