John Thedford
First National Realty Partners: Any Experience Or Knowledge
I found this company on FB. They are offering a part ownership in two large grocery store anchored strips in the NE. They are claiming a projected first year cash return of 8% with an IRR of 16%. The project is 36.5M ...
Kyle Lush
Cashflow vs. Net Worth
Hi BP friends. I'm an aspiring real estate investor and I have a question regarding cashflow vs net worth when starting out.I've made an introduction thread before but once again my situation is as follows. I am 30 ye...
Greg O'Brien
Clearing Up Confusion on Tax Treatment of Short Term Rentals
Hi All - I've seen quite a bit of confusion on the application of the Passive Activity Loss Rules and Short Term Rentals. Beyond BP, there is a lot of confusion in the accounting community as well but the same rules...
Jake Scott
Thoughts on Connected Investors?
Hello, BiggerPockets Community! (Man is it good to be here)I got into real estate a little over 2 years ago. I flip-flopped from being a wholesaler to flipper throughout these last two years and have had successes and...
John Ford
Making an offer with no hard financing plans
OK, so a deal came on the market within the last 24hrs that I think I may want to make my first as-an-investor offer on. But...I have no liquid funds. Can I make an offer with financing up in the air? Isn't it customa...
Taylor Hughs
Scaling: Why should I buy single families first then multifamilies later?
Hello Bigger Pockets community. My name is Taylor, I'm 18 and want to become a real estate investor in the next couple years. As of right now, I have read 3 books and have listened to countless hours of podcasts tryin...
Brooks Conkle
Looking for Skip Trace Tools to Track Down Sellers
Anyone have an efficient method (and economical way) to track down sellers of vacant properties?
If I don't find a better way, I'm going to take my returned letters and trash them (I'm just too ADD) - but I know there...
Helen Zhang
Cleveland Population Decline... Why?
We all know Cleveland Population is Declining every year. I hear a lot of reasons, but other than jobs as being the main reason, I cannot seem to find other reasons that make it reasonable for the declinning populatio...
Joe Au
Use HELOC to paydown mortgage fast
I want to build equity with my primary home as soon as possible. And I came across a method using HELOC to reduce the interest paid to the mortgage. Does any one have experience with it?
Shiloh Lundahl
Realistically most investors won’t replace all income W/ cashflow
I don’t mean to burst peoples’ bubbles here, but in my opinion, most investors on BiggerPockets won’t get to a place where they can replace all their monthly income with the cash flow of their properties. Some will. B...