Who is Doug Hopkins and what is his seminar really pushing? He has a seminar called "Winning The Property Wars" and it seems to relate to his TV show on the Discovery Channel that involves real estate auctions. H...

Dear BP community,finally it's done!! After 17 years and a great career in corporate America it was a little bittersweet but definitely awesome to finally quit my job last week. I have been working hardtowards this da...

Interesting article:http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-13/renting-in-america-has-never-been-this-expensive

Hello fellow BP'ers   Original post was how should I make the offer which is here.   https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/432/topics/47...<<<PART 2>>>I now have this multi-family under contract!!!, b...

I was looking at the market place and I saw a couple of homes in there. One for ~46k and another near ~80k if I recall correctly. Looking at the data here: http://www.city-data.com/zips/38111.html it seems the 2014 Q3...

One of agents emailed me a deal today. It's a 6 unit property in Berkeley. All 2 bed 1 bath. 4 of them pay $600 per month which is only about 30% of the market rate. Is this deal something we should avoid? This is som...

Hello, I am still new to real estate investing and hoping to expand my education and network. If anyone is interested in meeting for coffee or maybe a beer in west LA, I would love the chance to pick the brain of more...

For those not familiar, we got our first STR under contract and we are bringing my 12 year old daughter into the process of starting it up and managing it. We have owned long term rentals for many years, but decided t...

I’ve seen in posts and in books advice to newbie investors to find cheap properties in low income areas, but to stay away from properties “in a war zone”. But these posts and books never quantify what the diffe...

My names Karim and I've been trying to get my first multi-family apartment for close to a year now in the Los Angeles County area.  Been analyzing deal after deal and still cant find any that would even come close to ...