Hi everyone!I discovered Bigger Pockets after listening to a few episodes of the podcast. Really great stuff so far! I live in San Francisco, CA and work as an engineer in the tech industry. I don't have too much expe...

Hey Everyone!Only 48 hours into discovering BP (stumbled across them via YouTube) and I'm hooked on how helpful and amazing they and the BP members are!  It truly feels like a family when I read posts and see all the ...

Hi everyone!

My name is Katie, and I live in New York City (in Long Island City, a part of Queens, to be specific).

I'm interested in real estate because I've always loved buildings. I think for a long ...

BP,So I'm trying to break down these deals in the "Rental Property" calculator and it's asking me for things that I can't really answer. For instance, how do you know what the electric bill is going to look like? Insu...

I recently brought up REI in a group email with a bunch of friends and I had a lot more feedback than I was thinking I would.  It sounds like there would be a group of about 8-10 who all have interest and most of them...

Investment Info:

Single-family residence buy & hold investment in Spokane.

Purchase price: $340,000

Cash invested: $90,000

Beautiful single family home close to downtown. This was acquired with t...

Hey everyone,

I just wanted to take a second and welcome our brand new moderator to the BiggerPockets team ... @Dawn Anastasi !

Dawn has been one of the most active members on the si...

Hey y'all, I attended a real estate investing and marketing workshop hosted by Duncan Wierman a few weeks ago in L.A. He was telling us about his inbound marketing campaign strategies and proprietary lead generation s...

My wife and I are trying to create a plan before we start home searching in August. My plan is to buy a 3 bedroom 2 bath family home that will have an estimate mortgage of $850-$880 with my VA home loan. We would have...

When you are running your numbers do you use the Calculators here on the BP; if so do you run additional numbers along side it? If not how do you run your numbers?I'm referring towards buy and hold, rentals.   I'm new...