I was born and raised in CA. It's so heartbreaking to see what is happening to it.  A recent poll says that 46% of the people plan on leaving the bay area. Let's do our own poll (FOR CALIFORNIANS or those that recentl...

I’d like to start a new kind of real estate brokerage. It would dually represent buyers and sellers and charge a total commission of no more than 0.6%. Instead of depending on buyer agents to drive prospects from hous...

Hello BiggerPockets community,I'm thrilled to join this forum and seek advice from experienced real estate investors. Here's what I've considered so far:

1. Markets:
 Local Market: I live in the DMV area (DC/MD/...

I’m having a hard time deciding between the two of these companies. I’m about to take my license exam. Despite what some of the posts on here say about starting as a licensed agent before jumping into investments, I’v...

Hi all, I'm a newbie real estate investor. I just graduated about a year and a half from Cal and have been working since graduation. I've been saving hard for a down payment and now I think I might've stumbled across ...

I thought I'd start a thread on trading. If it garners enough interest maybe we can get an off topic trading forum going. I've learned there are not many trading sites out there nearly as fun as biggerpockets.

I bec...

Should my wife and I buy our first investment property in Mount Shasta, CA or Columbus, OH. We live in San Francisco, CA and we both work in the trades and have a couple of connections with trades people in Shasta. Th...

Hi guys,I am not sure what happened to the rental market. All I am getting are people with bad credit. One newly married couple : she had 635 credit, he had a few evictions. The other couple: the guy had an eviction, ...

Hi BP, I'm an out-of-state investor from Denver exploring TN markets. It seems like Nashville and Middle TN get most of the attention, but I have business connections in Knoxville and am wondering what the investing l...