I have been involved with flipping properties since early 2000s.   First subbing out as a carpenter for several local investors and builders.   When the market dropped out in 2008.  Everyone I knew including myself we...

Back in November (2014) I closed on my first REI property.  A 'turnkey' duplex in Chicago.  I went with a well-known turnkey provider and posted initial updates in this thread:http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/92/to...

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I for one believe we're not going to see a real estate crash anytime soon, and I firmly believe in the power of pessimistic thinking. But I'm also not wholly ignorant of all the aspects of this busin...

Hello all, I've been reading, listening, and studying real estate investment pathways for a couple of years now and one thing I keep coming across are RE wholesaler "mentor" programs. Here I'm thinking of courses like...

I'm trying to figure out the difference between investors who do, and investors who just talk about investing.....

What finally motivated you to start investing in real estate? What I'm actually really interested in...

I'm looking for some benchmarks for figuring out how different areas in intown and near OP Atlanta are classified (A, B, C, D areas).  I bought my personal residence 'across the tracks' in the City of Decatur 20 years...

Attention all Florida investors/landlords regarding making a claim on tenant's security deposit!! I obtained an eviction judgment against a former tenant who failed to pay rent in St. Petersburg, Florida (Pinellas Cou...

Maybe some guru has been advertising heavily on late night tv or something but to me it seems like there are A LOT of new people trying to wholesale. They have been told they can make RE riches despite having no mone...

I focus on commercial and haven't completed a residential short sale in about 4 years.

Me and my other broker friends I have been talking to recently are mentioning they are completing residential short sales on the ...

Has anyone done business with Memphis Invest?  I got a link to them thru an email blast from Bigger Pockets, and they want my business, but I don't really know anything about them except they are a turnkey operation i...