Hi there. Whilst I'm a newbie to real estate, i'm no newbie to business.  At 26 i started my own company (in China) and recently sold it for millions.   Now I want to create passive income and I have created a strong ...

Dear BP community,I just made an offer on a fourplex and am looking for negotiation advice.  The property is in really good shape and had a new roof done on 2014.  The area is a B- neighborhood so it will not be too d...

Hi all,I know it's been played before, but there are tons of us new to the site, so thought I would play it again.You just won something that gave you an after tax, free and clear $1 MILLION dollars to do as you pleas...

There's been a lot of discussion on the forums as it relates to differentiating bad debt from good.  The most common view on BP is that any debt which does not produce investment returns is bad debt.I, for the most pa...

Hi there.  I’m a new investor and have begun using the rental property calculator on bigger pockets for my market.I’ve only analyzed about ten properties so far, but I am getting about negative $1000 cash flow per mon...

I lost some sleep last night.  I'm having problems renting my SF.  The price is now at 1850 plus utilities.  The argument often heard is "well you can own a home for what you're paying in rent."  So I wanted to look a...

Hey there BP!I'm posting this thread, which, full disclosure, will be long, and might not be for everyone, in order to document a project I am doing here in sunny Arizona.  It is on a commercial building, 8 units, and...

I have been seeing this a lot lately: people who hold on to underperforming properties because they add to their door count or to their self-worth as real estate investors. If you don't like buying hoarders' houses, d...