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Pop the champagne! ;) After a year+ of lurking here and 3.5 months of searching, we closed on our first property today!! Exciting and terrifying ;)We are getting quotes this weekend on some work we want to do (and som...
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The following Quote stopped me in my tracks and I had to read it a several times.CAR projects that by 2025, California will be a majority renter state. “Home ownership is becoming a luxury item,” Appleton-Young said.I...
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Hello everyone, I am both excited and sort of terrified! So I have been looking at properties and analyzing them and I came across 1 property. It is not in the best (Or Worst) neighborhood so I know it wouldn't attrac...
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I've been a silent lurker for quite some time now, as I got myself together financially. I finally decided to move ahead full speed with this real estate journey, especially after attending Brandon's 90-day webinar l...
I recently left corporate America in search of a new life in real estate. I looked at rehabbing and flipping, at becoming a realtor and even investing in commercial real estate. Then I came across “wholesale real esta...
I have bumbled through properties sales, rentals, mortgages, etc. mainly because of moving so much with ex. However, I also have a knack for seeing a dysfunctional property in all of its glory. (Something you guys t...
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Hello BP community....I have been lurking a bit and spending a good amount of time digesting the BP podcast series. (I still have a way to go)My wife and are are newly empty nesters trying to speed up our retirement ...
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First off, hellos everyone. I am an extreme newbie in this world. I have been very interested in rental property investment for some time and have been doing a lot of self learning from BP, Ramsey and just about anywh...
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Hello BiggerPockets!I'm a nurse and my partner is in school full time to become a pharmacist. We have a cat named Mo who is very spoiled. I knit, read, work out, smoke meats in my 2.5 smokers and enjoy watching moves....
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Does anyone have any experience using deal machine or flipster.