Samantha M.
Prepared for the 2013 Recession?
Many media outlets, respected investors and the like are reporting 2013 will be yet another recession. Possibly more severe than the one in 2008 due to factors such as increased national debt, printing money, manipula...
James Pederson
Serious Life-Changing Dilemma - Became Aware Of Major Fraud
Sigh. The last 10 days or so have been traumatic for me. I have a son-in-law who is an experienced real estate investor. I became aware that two deals had closed six weeks ago involving one of the investors I got him....
Eric Barnett
Incentives to Encourage Tenants to Pay On Time?
I have that typical one property (fourplex) that gives me a monthly headache when it comes time to collect. I'll receive all kinds of stories on why they don't have the full rent, can I pay you rest in two weeks, etc...
Kevin Stearns
Information on index universal life insurance for retirement
Does anyone have any idea where to go to get set up with an IUL? Do you think using an IUL is a good part of a retirement strategy? Thank you for your input.
Dick Green
Iran Threat Real or Not?
So we found no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and decided to go to plan "B" which was to reconstruct their government. Now we have a possible real threat in Iran. Is it real or is someone crying wolf again? Ca...
Account Closed
Pursuing Bird Dogging Legally
Hi everyone, my name is Michael and I'm a 15 year old from New York. Over the past year or so I've been trying to get into real estate but there's always a problem with either the strategy or my age. I looked into B...
Kris Benson
Why Isn't Anyone Talking About Self Storage??
Just a quick disclaimer. This is a really long post. Also I am also now employed by a self storage operator so my opinion is probably is not objective.I was a professional sale person who "retired" on 3/31/2018 to l...
Matt Mainini
How to overcome emotionally difficult tenants?
I knew this would happen eventually, but I still don't know how to overcome it mentally. My goal is to grow my business (currently 3 rental properties) and work on systems and whatnot, yet I'm deeply troubled by one ...
Michael L.
Opening the Kimono: My Out-of-State REI Experience
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...
Bill F.
How to Get $10k/month Cash Flow: That's the Wrong Question
A lot of people want to use REI to escape their 9-5 and replace their W2 income so they can live the life they want. That leads to the reasonable question 'I need/want $7/10/15k/ month in free cash flow(FCF) from my R...