http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-10/new-orleans-is-auctioning-off-vacant-lots-onlineWhat do you think? Based on what I know about the town and local economy, I wouldn't be rushing at these vacant lots. N...

Hi All,I am currently exploring investing/buying a unit in Tulum, Mexico. Any advice or things to look out for would be greatly appreciated! I will likely buy with cash and not hold a mortgage. If you have invested in...

First a little bit of background on the house: it is a 3 bed 1.5 bath cape cod, in an older neighborhood of a class A suburb outside of Milwaukee. It was listed on the MLS, had been bank owned for about 5 years and wa...

A recent BP blog article by Scott Trench had the phrase “. . . guys like us here on BiggerPockets . . . “ I commented about the gendered language, because if people don’t realize they’re doing it, it can never change....

Hi everyone!I'm a new real estate investor based in New York City. I'm interested in out of state rental properties, preferably multi-unit (duplex, triplex) for buy and hold around the 80K-100K purchase price. I would...

Be Greedy When Others Are Fearful – A Lesson From The Financial Crisis
“Be fearful when others are greedy; be greedy when others are fearful.” – Warren Buffett
There is a lot of fear in the market place right now. T...

So far I've been working with an agent that has, to my knowledge, never worked with an investor. Over the past two years though I've bought 2 properties with her help. She pulled comps and we talked about what rent ca...

Good evening folks,I've been wondering around this lately and decided to come to where the expert live.I have a rental property that used to be my primary home until a year ago(Miami, FL). We bought it in 2010 and  pr...

I have a piece of real estate owned by an s-corp (of which I am the sole shareholder).It has appreciated substantially in the decades that I've owned it.I would like to transfer it to an LLC (of which I would be the s...

There are 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. If even just a quarter of them are removed, don't you think it would greatly affect housing markets? That'd be 2-3 million people not needing housing ...