Jered Sturm
10,000 hours of investing thought me 5 simple keys to success
I was told the other day that after doing something for 10,000 hours you are an expert in that field. That had me doing the math. How many hours have I put into my real estate investing career? If a normal person work...
Lindsay Heller
Major for college?
My son is a senior in high school. His post high school plans the last couple of years was to get his real estate agent license, with the ultimate goal of investing. Those two things remain the same. Now he is in a po...
Amy Wei Ru Chang
600k cash...how to allocate in sky high market for investment properties in LA area
Hello! First post for long time forum reader. Had a succesful investment with College friend 10 years ago and now we are cashing out and going our separate ways. The property is in Texas and has been handled by the...
Michael Swan
How To Identify Bad "D" Or "F" Class Areas
Hi all,Since I was featured on Podcast 238 about a year ago, I have talked to many BP Nation Members asking me if they should buy this deal or that deal. Here is a simple way to determine if a deal a broker is sendin...
Marshall Henry
A Trashy Situation featuring my next door neighbor
We purchased a triplex about a month ago. We will be owner occupants and have been slowly moving in. I took the time to engage as many of my surrounding neighbors as I could and exchanged info and phone numbers with t...
Mike J.
Lessons Learned From My $30,000 Mistake
Spring of 2010.We (my father and I) purchased a home in the Inland Empire of Southern California. It was a brand new 3Bed 2Ba SFH that was listed at an unbelievably low price. A little backstory on this property; this...
Łukasz Juraszek
1% rule, 2% rule are BS...
In the book How To Invest In Real Estate, the author claims that a property that doesn't meet the 1% rule will never be cashflow positive.Here is a proof against it. Buy a property for 500K cash, rent out for 2.5K, su...
Arjun S.
Rent to Retirement experience
Hello BP!
Here is my frank 2 cents! I recently closed on my 1st out of state property and in the currently in the process of closing on a 2nd one after learning about turnkey rentals and coming across rent to retirem...
Sean Haran
New investor choosing a market 2024
Hello all! I’m an aspiring investor, and I’m living in Los Angeles so investing local is basically out of the question. Even a house hack is super tough in the city now. If I find one of course I’ll jump on it but any...
Eli Kallison
Indefinitely Period of Travel - What to do with $400k home
Athe end of the year, I'm quitting my job and booking a 1-way ticket overseas. I'm going to try to freelance and make some money while traveling to make this as sustainable as possible for a long period of time (proba...