I am building a house...https://www.dropbox.com/s/2ta56u5d2esz6h9/house.JP...... that will cost about $73,000 to build, mostly because I'm doing a lot of the labor myself.Based on current market data, I think I can se...

I realized in February of 2011 that my ladder was leaning against the wrong financial building. Sooooo, I started to use my savings, refinancing my personal home, and taking out my IRA’s and 401K money through the cou...

I have been inquiring about this new method of real estate investing. Is there anyone here on BP who's familiar with doing Mortgage Assignment Contracts? If so what are the pros and cons? I want to start doing this be...

One of my goals over the past 6 years has been to produce a real estate investing conference unlike any we've seen before. I believe that BiggerPockets is in a unique position to create a conference that changes the ...

The other day I was helping my brother-in-law pick up some furniture and I got to talking with the woman he was buying it from. The woman said she was a property manager and real estate agent so I told her that I had ...

The title says it all assuming you can get back 7% on stock gains yearly, going by current trends this seems extremely conservative, companies today seem to be growing much faster than the historical data we usually r...

I have a house under contract here in Omaha. I agreed to buy the house as-is with no repairs to be done by the seller. I had a home inspection and discovered a couple of repairs that will cost me a few grand. I had ba...

Has anyone come across the Money Merge Account (MMA), which is being marketed by United First Financial?
The idea is to use a HELOC to prepay your first mortgage by timing additional payments. It is supposed to be be...

Currently, I have rental property in California, Colorado, Texas and Virginia. I am looking to buy another SFR or possibly duplex, and the main issue is monthly cash flow. What state or states seem to be the best fo...

Are Hedge funds buying in your city... should investors be following them and buying along side the Hedge funds with the hope of getting swept up in the anticipation of capital growth based on supply demand?  Or are t...