Hello all,I have been a member for about a month and have been too afraid to throw out an introduction until now, it is time for me to jump in. Roughly five months ago I bought my first investment property and I'm hoo...

Hey guys. First things first, my name is Reed Cooper. This is my first post on BP and I am a senior studying marketing at Auburn University. Currently 22 years old and have recently became fascinated with the idea of ...

Hey - anyone with design skills - we would like to start making some BiggerPockets T-shirts and other pieces of flare. So - if you have any skill in design, or clever ideas that a designer could do, and want to s...

Hi all.  I'm interested in putting together a group of people who are planning to invest out of state in single and small multifamilies to share ideas.  I am interested in a number of out of state locations (and I'm s...

Student rentals make good buy-and-hold investments, or else people would've stopped buying them a long time ago. But what are the pros and cons associated with a student housing investment compared to a traditional bu...

The whole story about how private equity firms and hedge funds have steamrolled into the residential home market to become this decade’s slumlords is a story covered on this blog before mainstream media even knew i...

I've been around this business long enough to see just about every scammer out there. I've noticed that all of the scammers use certain words: Here's my list:

1. SECRET (the gurus have a secret alright. The secre...

After several months of hard work - we have finally finished the first version of the BiggerPockets iPhone App!

This App is going to help you stay up to date with all the best real estate investing content from Big...

BP Family, My partner and I are about to put an offer in on our first multi-family property in Oakland County, MI. We've built out a model and really like where our numbers are at, but the one variable we're having tr...

30k in cost segregation just saved us 400k in income tax this year!  If you own property valued at 400k each and up and pay income tax, I strongly recommend it.