I am not sure there is really a good thread here in BP which address this question.  I know there are many blogs but those do not provide expanded conversations around the idea, IMO.  If you are a seasoned, new or pot...

Good Morning BP!Summary: How do smart investors hedge against market corrections in the commercial multi-family sector? And should required reserves for a property be factored in to calculations for CoC and/or IRR? Th...

Ladies and Gents,We don't do too many deals, but when @Sam Grooms and I do a deal, it's something special.Today we closed on 117-unit in Phoenix's South Mountain neighborhood. The complex is named South Mountain Squar...

This is not to be apocalyptic but to bring back to the front of people's minds a tradition that seems to have been lost recently. People used to keep pantries with significant stores of preserved food on hand in the ...

This flies in the face of everything that we have ever learned about retirement accounts.  So I want to start this by stating that it is stupid for 99% of the people out there to cash out retirement accounts but I wou...

I ran across Jason Hartman's website/podcast and am intrigued. Is there anyone here who's bought properties from his company that could share their positive or negative experience with me?For what it's worth, everyone...

Dear Fellow BPers in and around Tokyo Japan.I would like to get a small informal get-together going on a regular basis somewhere in Tokyo. Open to anyone willing to make the trip of course, but likely folks from the K...

Hello so an interesting subject always in my head is should I rent to section 8 or some other form of government housing? I know its a guaranteed rental income, but it is worth the hoops you have to jump through can s...

Has anyone else invested with this guy?  I got roped into this PEP fund he was advertising by a friend who had invested with him before.  The fund was advertised as a boring "preferred equity" fund that pays 10% a yea...

If you were to restart your life at 17 already knowing you want to get into real estate investing, would you go to college with a full-ride or would you get started investing without wasting any time, and why?