Mark K.
Disappointed in Scott Trench
Scott, @Scott Trench,I must say, you truly disappointed me with your negative article on stock investing. https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2015/04/16/ridiculousness-of-stock-picking-waste-of-time-young-investo...
Bruce Woodruff
AirBnB Stock up, travel and bookings up.....
Yesterday, AIR announced that it's stock was up, along with many other metrics that may indicate that not only travel in general, but STRs in particular, are in for a good ride ahead. AIRs bookings are up 30% over the...
Mark Navarrete
Declining Population in my market of interest
Would you consider buying a cash flowing property in a city that has a year over year population decline? I'm doing some research into the Buffalo,NY market because of the favorable purchase to rent ratios and came ac...
Carol Lam
Buying REO properties
Can I buy REO property directly from a bank? If the bank has taken the property as REO, then all the loans would have been forgiven, correct? The title would also have been cleared. Do I just call the REO departmen...
Caleb Teachout
Stocks vs. Real Estate
Excerpt from a post I made on the stock investing forum "The Motley Fool." The audience is stock investors who are equally passionate and successful in stocks as the BP community is in REI. Many of them think going al...
Isaac Hayes
Pledging Brokerage Account vs. Using Cash for Downpayment
I am planning on buying a 4-plex in Colombus, Ohio in December. I currently have funds for a 25% downpayment in a brokerage account invested in low cost index funds. My initial thought was to liquidate the brokerage a...
Patrick McGowen
stock investing book suggestions
I know this is real estate forum, but I am looking for good suggestions on stock market investing book(s). I figure suggestions from this group are less likely to follow typical financial advice of buy and hold mu...
Joanne Tsai
which way to lose money?? :(
Hi BPers, I have a condo in NYC, and I have been lucky that my tenants of 6 years have been paying throughout last year. But no surprise, they want to move out when their lease comes up this year in June. my building ...
Nick J.
Buyers Market Vs. Sellers Market
I wanted to take this opportunity to open a discussion on what you think a buyers market is compared to a sellers market.
I personally don't believe there is such a thing as a buyers market.
The way I think is this...
Danny Kaminsky
Volunteer Software Engineer
Hey Everyone! My name is Danny Kaminsky, and I am brand new to Real Estate Investing, but very eager to learn. I am currently a Software Engineer/Data Scientist at a RE Data Science firm, and I'm looking for a way tha...