As many of us have come to find out in real estate investing, our ability to grow a real estate portfolio is highly dependent upon our ability to leverage our money. Or, in other words, use others people’s money to ma...
My contractor's crew began tiling the bath/shower surround today. It was such a mess I pulled it all off before the mortar could dry resolving to at least get it properly started myself. In researching tiling, I learn...
Fellow BP-ers,I have been in the short term vacation rental and SF long term rental business for 10 years now, and am entering the multifamily side of REI in an effort to scale and expand my business. I have read a m...
Hi everyone,I've got a weird question today. My husband has been working on our ancient 4plex including what started as a small handful of repairs at one of the units where a tenant's been living for about 18 years (...
Hello all, my apologies if this questions has been brought up more than once during recent times. Based on your overall market expertise, what are the top cities to invest in real estate right now? To clarify specific...
We are newbies. Like typical newbies, we're stupid. We're about 3 months and 1.5 properties into this biz, and realizing just how inexperienced we are. I just stumbled across biggerpockets (which is amazing!!!), an...
My wife, @Sara Hodge, and I have been on BP for around 6 months now. We own our primary residence in Orange County, California, but due to the high prices, we decided to invest out of state. We now own two rentals (...
Does having diarrhea make one an Expert on Toilets?
Just because one investor, in one part of the country, during a specific time period, uses a specific technique (s) to make money in real estate, does not make him...
I've decided to take the plunge into real estate investing. I'm reading all these great articles on BP (thank you for providing this amazing and extremely useful resource!!) and also have a stack of books on house fli...
As an out of state investor, I was offered a property that is under management of Flex Realty Property Management in Toledo, OH. It is not a great deal but it is tempting enough for a Californian :). The seller is the...