Who paints their entire inside of their house the same color?  We have been painting most of the inside of our houses two color coordination. I am considering doing a light cream of some kind for ceilings walls basebo...

I'm doing everything I can to learn about real estate investing (mainly via reading), and there are concerns I have about my future in this field, that I want some more clarification on, and better yet creative soluti...

Greetings Bigger Pockets community!
After waiting and waiting for someone to spearhead a local investor meetup in the Fort Hood/Killeen area, I've finally decided to grab the bull by the horns and organize one myself...

GENERAL DISCUSSION:California has fires. Florida and South Carolina have hurricanes. All these insurance companies are jacking up the rates 2x-6x or cancelling policies altogether in these and many other areas. If you...

Hello all...I've been reading BP for a while and joined about a week ago. My wife and I live and work  in the middle of Silicon Valley. We are originally from Texas and we own a SFR in Las Vegas that is rented (with a...

The history of markets tells us that we will always have a crash.  

This graph shows total consumer debt in the US since 2003
Housing crashes come from over indebtedness, this graph shows that US consumers have mo...

Hi everyone!It recently came to my attention that my grandfather has way too much money sitting in a standard savings account earning a pathetic less than 1% interest rate. My grandfather's gears turn in money and I'm...

While I have been a RE Investor for 2 Decades, I've seen this metric quite often. The Cash on Cash Return (CoCR) seemed to be part of a lot of REI's decision making criteria.This Post will be a very long one but one f...