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Hi BP community, I just finished listening to Mike Butler's "Landlording on Autopilot" audiobook, and I found his chapter on showing vacant units very interesting. For those that haven't read or listened, he recommend...
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I know when you first get started investing in real estate, money is always a tough situation. You never want to lose money when you're buying and flipping a house. When flipping a house you should make as much profit...
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In keeping with the spirit of Halloween, what has been your scariest moment as a landlord or investor?
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Dear BP community,I just made an offer on a fourplex and am looking for negotiation advice. The property is in really good shape and had a new roof done on 2014. The area is a B- neighborhood so it will not be too d...
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Hey BP!I’ve got an issue with a foreclosure I just bought today. I won the auction and paid for the property there. Then I drive by the house and there’s an investor company (something like “we buy run down house”) si...
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So I’m new to bigger pockets (my first post so far!) I’ve been diving into real estate books and listening to podcasts since last October. I have two houses that have about $200k equity in each of them. One is a vacat...
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Hello BP Community!,I am a 27 year old Project Engineer working in the construction industry in San Francisco Bay Area, covering areas from San Jose, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Oakland and San Francisco. I have researc...
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David and Brandon, I was thinking about why women who were asked would not want to appear on the podcast. Then i wrote out two different posts about ways to be more woman friendly, and then I was afraid to come off bi...
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Over the past few weeks I have begun to get the sense that the San Francisco Bay Area market may be turning a corner. I have very little data to back up my feeling, and I am certainly not a market timing expert, so I ...
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Hello BIggerPockets,
I started this discussion to get some thoughts and opinions on how the Coronavirus might affect the housing market. Mainstream media has been reporting about it nonstop for the last few days, sta...