Hi everyone! I am excited to learn everything I can from this great community. I am looking to invest in real estate to diversify. I am invested in mostly stocks and bonds and know nothing about real estate. Thank you...

Tonight our small investor group will start an open ended conversation about how to go about making an existing older neighborhood in our community into trendy and popular neighborhood with more of an urban identity. ...

Looking to start a thread to discuss current events in RTP/Raleigh-Durham and it's impact on local real estate. We clearly see an uptick of demands & low inventory. Especially with investment properties, it's hard...

All, I am leaning more towards selling my Duplex.  Here are my numbers:After all the expenses, my take home is around $1600/mth.  The property appreciation is around 4% / year.  This is low as compared to SFH.  Not to...

Hello all,Right now, I currently have all real estate assets and no money in stocks. I met with a financial advisor yesterday, who is a trusted friend-of-a-friend, and suggests I put a chunk of money into tax savings ...

Sorry in advance for a long post; I want to write a detailed post on how I got started in RE investing a few years ago, the lessons I learned along the way, and why I'm thinking about stopping now. I want to be as spe...

Hey Everyone,I listed my first short term rental in beginning of this month. I’ve had one guest so far. I’m excited to get started and host more guests! All feedback (good, bad, or indifferent) is welcome and apprecia...

Here's a some lengthy, but very interesting and well researched paper on the economy in general. Focused on consumers overall, but a lot of material about housing. If the author is right, we've not seen anything yet...

Hello bp members!

I currently live in Sterling Heights, one of the metropolitan areas just outside Detroit.

I'm new to this site and new to real estate investing. I've been reading alot of the articles ...

Article below talks about how the massive leak could muck up housing markets for years ....

"Beyond the actual disruption to sales and hit on housing values in areas affected by the Gulf oil spill, real estate profe...