I started investing in real estate when my employer made changes to the pension plan (they stopped contributing to it). I was facing a shortfall in my retirement plans as a result of this change that I needed to make ...

Hello BP.I am a buy and hold investor with 10 rentals in the Baltimore County/Harford County, Maryland. I am in the process of moving to California, where the numbers do not work for me to continue to buy and hold. I ...

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I have heard on several podcasts about the concept of “retrading” (the term for going back to the seller after you are under contract and asking for credits, concessions, etc.) and how it cou...

I am working on a second graduate degree right now and I find myself constantly saying to my wife that "school is getting in the way of my learning!"  I have found so much more value in my self-studies via reading boo...

Hello B.P. world.  I am wanting to write my first letter to several mobile home parks located around me.  I don't exactly know how my first letter should be to them.  I have written to home owners about purchasing the...

Hello-Does anyone have a deal analysis spreadsheet for potential STR/vacation rentals that they would be willing to share? I began to create one but figured I need not recreate the wheel if someone else has already do...

Hello all,Funny story- on a chair lift skiing yesterday in this amazing state and met a guy who told me about bigger pockets and that it would change my life. How did the convo even get there? I mentioned I bought my ...

Hi everyone, My wife and I have built up a portfolio of 14 strs over the past few years. We have some capital and are looking to possibly purchase a small hotel. We have only ever bought residential sfr with conventio...

"If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world, it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other l...

Hello BP, what are your book recommendations? It doesn't have to be real estate if it's a really good book that will help out in some other way.In the past couple months I've read "The book on investing in real estate...