Has anyone out there in creative land used futures contracts to hedge interest rate risk on your ARM? I am wondering what futures to use for commercial loans with floaters past year 5 or so. Selling eurodollar futur...

Hi BiggerPockets Team Members,
I took Brandon Turner's advice last night watched the "How to Invest in Real Estate as a newbie". It was great, joined the Pro Membership! I also drove by a property I would like to buy...

Today we entered into a contract to buy a 3 bed 2 bath House in Kansas City Mo for $145k. The house will rent for $1500 to $1700 per month.I’m teaching my daughter how to create a monthly budget and will set up a sepa...

[punchline at the end] I have a legacy tenant that has been living in the building since purchase (7 years ago) and they recently killed their gas range with only one of 4 burners working.  When they notified me it wa...

I am closing on my first rental on the 7th. I purchased it with cash and will also being doing the rehabs cash. By using cash the ROI numbers are coming out nice, and being in the military if I leave it gives me margi...

This is basically an information gathering post, some things I've been turning over in my head. I've got a few clients considering new construction and I've connected with an architect/builder firm so I have a good f...

Commercial Real Estate Investment > Residential
Many co-workers/friends (upper-middle class) invest in residential real estate to rent out and do airbnbs or furnished finders. But, no one I know is in commercial r...

HI all, I had a question about bank accounts and what is the best way to manage this. I have chosen to go the LLC route for each property and was told the safe bet is to open a separate bank account per property to ma...

I'm almost 50 and just woke up to the power of REI.  Kicking myself for not learning about this 30 years ago.  But here I am, and I have a decent pile of cash ($120K) and a pretty good 401K.  So I'm in a great positio...

I just left this message below in reply to a forum post recently.  I thought I would share it with all here to document my path and to inspire others to follow a similar path and stay away from late night guru garbage...