Welcome to our Question of the Week! We have a lot of people who are entering the world of real estate investment who could use your wisdom. When evaluating a property, what are your automatic no or exclusion list ite...

Hello everyone, I have my date pick out to move to Detroit. Should be there by the end of August. I’m moving to invest in real state, but I also want to open a property management business. I been managing my own prop...

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I have been researching a lot about syndications / investment clubs lately and was getting ready to start investing away, but I have found a couple of posts that mentioned that it might not be the best tim...

Ashley Kehr, author of Real Estate Rookie and co-host of the Rookie podcast will be taking over the BiggerPockets' Instagram tomorrow to answer all your rookie investing questions and discussing how to overcome obstac...

I am not sure there is really a good thread here in BP which address this question.  I know there are many blogs but those do not provide expanded conversations around the idea, IMO.  If you are a seasoned, new or pot...

A few years ago one of the investors who had multiple properties in Manhatan Beach CA, then Phoenix AZ, who has been doing it for 30-40 years told me: " A property does not really cash flow till its paid off"Honestly,...

Hey All, As we announced in a recent episode of On The Market we're conducting some market research to see how real estate investors feel about the current housing market. We're going to roll up the answers and discus...

Hi BP,It's been a while since I posted, hope everyone is managing well despite the bad macro economic conditionWanted to get your insight on your investing strategy in this recession, are you buying or holding cash to...

ifunding seems to be the first crowdfunding portal to have an investment (actually 5 investments) not go according to plan.  They have 5 fix and flip deals in Milwaukee with the Orange group that were suppose to yield...

I know the "50% rule" is bandied about as gospel here in the forums, but haven't seen any actual, hard data that says that operating expenses tend to be ~50% of gross rent income. I'd like to verify this number is, in...