Corey Dutton
What Are the Biggest Risks of Trust Deed Investing?
A loan made to an individual or a business can be secured by real estate or real property. This is also called real estate lending, or trust deed investing. A trust deed is recorded, putting a lien on the Title to the...
Peter Thielemann
Rolling a 401K to a self-directed IRA to invest in real estate
Hi Peter "newbie" here, I'm new to BP and looking for Pros and cons on rolling my company-sponsored 401k into a self-directed IRA to purchase rental properties. I understand you have to go to a Trust Company/custodian...
Julie Marquez
Am I a Shady Landlady?
All of our rental agreements are month to month. To incentivize people to stay longer, we charge a move in fee that can be added forwards the refundable deposit if they stay over a year. Example: rent is $1000, move i...
Jonathan C.
70,000 Mail Pieces in 2014; What Did I Get For It?
Here are my results after about $67K worth of direct mail cost in 2014. It would be awesome is we could have everyone who has sent more than, say, 5,000 mail pieces, to post their REAL WORLD results as well. Collect...
Shawn Kenyon
Emotional support animals
Well it's happened. people are applying to rent our units with their emotional support pitbulls and other animals . Of course we follow all fair housing laws . but what we need to do is weed out people that have legi...
Alec McGinn
Grant Cardone says go bigger!
I listened to the bigger pockets podcast episode with Grant Cardone today while at work. The number one point I took from him was to go bigger. Just when I think I have my investing strategy figured out starting out w...
Dave Vona
Is SFR investing worth the return? An IRR analysis
Hi, I’m trying to decide whether I continue to actively invest in single-family (or small multifamily) long-term rentals or invest with a multifamily syndication. I decided to run IRR (Internal Rate of Return) calcul...
Brian Quo
How bad is it to start off not cash flowing on 1st rental that is new construction?
So I live in the SF East Bay and have been looking to invest in a rental. I am too afraid to do out of state rentals. I have been looking at some homes for investment and it's expensive here.
I have been looking at...
Mike Hendrickson
Squashing the "Wholesaling is illegal/legal" argument!!!
I have read through a lot of forum post about the topic of wholesaling (the latest by @Brittany Witt) and it seems like the argument of wholesaling being legal/illegal could be squashed once and for all by getting you...
Allen Felker
How to shut up the Wholesale bashers
Wholesaling real estate can be life changing. I know a lot of people who started from nothing and now make 6+ figures annually doing so, that pisses agents off lol. The things I see about wholesaling on BiggerPockets ...