![](https://bpimg.biggerpockets.com/no_overlay/uploads/social_user/user_avatar/953488/small_1621506186-avatar-melanieh19.jpg?twic=v1/output=image&v=2)
Hi All! I had to share. Against all conventional advice and wisdom, I've just quit my job. My fiance's job brings enough for us to cover are needed expenses and I have about a year's worth of savings built up on top o...
![](https://bpimg.biggerpockets.com/no_overlay/uploads/social_user/user_avatar/1048655/small_1621508075-avatar-douglasg28.jpg?twic=v1/output=image&v=2)
Hello fellow investors! I began a post a few months ago in regards to a new construction project I will be starting soon and after all the great input I thought it would be nice to start a journal in order to help ne...
![](https://bpimg.biggerpockets.com/no_overlay/uploads/social_user/user_avatar/877216/small_1621504840-avatar-henryl50.jpg?twic=v1/output=image&v=2)
Here in Chicago commission have typically been between 2 and 2.5 percent of gross sale price but now with the new rules I have not met any agents willing to take less then 2.5% so what has happened is the listings tha...
![](https://bpimg.biggerpockets.com/no_overlay/uploads/social_user/user_avatar/355556/small_1621446277-avatar-paralex.jpg?twic=v1/output=image&v=2)
We just recently started house renovation and got red tagged by the city inspector. I guess he saw dumpster while driving around or maybe neighbors complained. So we learned never leave dumpster in city limits.
Could...
![](https://bpimg.biggerpockets.com/no_overlay/uploads/social_user/user_avatar/235561/small_1621435196-avatar-sinbad.jpg?twic=v1/output=image&v=2)
Listening to people beat up on the young folks for having their student loans paid off. Look at this people born between 81 and 96 are getting poorer while the rest of us are getting richer. What this is really sayi...
![](https://bpimg.biggerpockets.com/no_overlay/uploads/social_user/user_avatar/222285/small_1621434280-avatar-shanepearlman.jpg?twic=v1/output=image&v=2)
While cashflow is key to keep the property safely under control, I seem to find that the larger returns for our portfolio to date come from strategic growth of equity. My wife and I are still fairly small in our inves...
![](https://bpimg.biggerpockets.com/no_overlay/uploads/social_user/user_avatar/1669508/small_1715981795-avatar-collinh21.jpg?twic=v1/output=image&v=2)
We have officially entered the "Hiney Showing" phase in the Smokies. That is, homes being offered for less than what was paid for them very recently. It's all a part of the boom/bust real estate cycle in resort are...
![](https://bpimg.biggerpockets.com/no_overlay/uploads/social_user/user_avatar/1301144/small_1696438406-avatar-rbradycr7homes.jpg?twic=v1/output=image&v=2)
A CA couple is suing an appraiser for what they assert is a lowball appraisal: https://www.washingtonpost.com... For a second appraisal, they removed all hints that a black couple lived in the home and they asked a wh...
![](https://bpimg.biggerpockets.com/no_overlay/uploads/social_user/user_avatar/104050/small_1621417215-avatar-tntp.jpg?twic=v1/output=image&v=2)
I read too often contractors are more of the problem rather solution to investment strategies. What if you could find a local contractor service that manged contractors based on customer satisfaction ratings you provi...
![](https://bpimg.biggerpockets.com/no_overlay/uploads/social_user/user_avatar/187131/small_1621431868-avatar-redline29.jpg?twic=v1/output=image&v=2)
Hey BP! In 2017, so far I have run into about eight wholesalers who were:-Marketing properties they did not have under contract-Daisy-chaining deals 3 and 4 deep-Marking properties up 200 or more percent-Dealing with ...