I'm ready to buy my first duplex. In our market I can buy a habitable duplex in a low income urban market for 30k. Rents are aprox $500/unit but will likely be low income urban or section 8 tenants. The ROI opportu...

The General Canadian Real estate market has been going strong for 20 + years without any major pullbacks. I am curious to find out when does the BP community think the prices will start to go decrease in Canada ?

Calling all underdog RE investors.If you got into real estate because you were an engineer, lawyer, doctor, or otherwise have large amounts of discretionary income, that's cool, but I want to hear from the unlikely he...

I am interested to hear how many of you have actually invested in POL and how your investments are doing. So far I have invested $105,000 in 16 of their loans with various investment sizes ranging from $5,000-$15,000 ...

I know that accountability was one of the biggest factors for me being successful in real estate investing (or any business for that matter), and one way I was able to hold myself accountable was to announce my goals ...

If you were to restart your life at 17 already knowing you want to get into real estate investing, would you go to college with a full-ride or would you get started investing without wasting any time, and why? 

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I found this very interesting article written by two Notre Dame university business professors. It is short and succinct but very interesti...

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Many people on BiggerPockets (at least on the podcasts) have credited their start to investing in real estate to reading Robert Kiyosaki’s book Rich Dad Poor Dad; myself included. However, there are also some investor...

What are you doing or seeing that effectively addresses racial disparity in home ownership/ lending/ generational wealth?Hopefully this is a fairly straightforward question about a heavy and complex topic!  It's well ...