Hi, everyone! I was sitting around with a few members of a Meetup group I am in. The question was asked "if you only had $500 to start your first business, how would you use the money?" So, I thought it would be an in...

Hi BP community,It’s taken awhile to get my financial planner to understand what I’m doing with Real Estate Investing. I interviewed a new one from a well regarded independent boutique firm and again he didn’t quite g...

I am curious what mistakes everyone else made when analyzing their first properties?

Hi BiggerPockets Community - I'm Paul and like the title says, I put websites on top of Google for a living. What questions can I answer for you about that?I'm a newly addicted real estate investor, and I've been list...

The Leading Index of Economic Indicators has been a pretty good indicator of a decline in economic activity, since it was published. The index uses nonfarm payroll employment, the unemployment rate, average hours work...

Hello BPJust finalizing details to have my biz partner fund a small marketing budget ~1K/mo. Looking for recommendations on how to spend/allocate the budget: Direct Mail / Online Lead generation. Picking up about a 10...

Hi EveryoneAfter reading through many excellent posts, include the "Diary of a New Construction Project" by @J Scott and @Joshua Dorkin, I thought I might add our voice here on BP. I am proposing to track the entire l...

Has anyone used this system to 'turn your real estate business into a million dollar business in a year'? That was one of the web videos informercial claims. It looked to be basic internet marketing systems, SEO and...

Just watched the 60 minutes special on the homeless crisis. Very concerning when you realize that we are part of the problem. To keep our business profitable we absolutely have to screen tenants for felony’s, rental...

Big question - why hasn't anyone applied data science and machine learning in the real estate domain?With the recent (7 years?) advances in natural language processing, image recognition and the validation of various ...