![](https://bpimg.biggerpockets.com/no_overlay/uploads/social_user/user_avatar/460405/small_1694742100-avatar-xxxxxxxxx.jpg?twic=v1/output=image&v=2)
Hi, I'm a first time house flipper and just bought my first foreclosed property for 108k. The comps in the area are anywhere between 200-220k. Ive been meeting with contractors everyday, but don't really know whats a ...
![](https://bpimg.biggerpockets.com/no_overlay/uploads/social_user/user_avatar/4738/small_1621347135-avatar-barnardinc.jpg?twic=v1/output=image&v=2)
Background for those that don't know me: I am a full time real estate investor and I have invested in nearly every aspect of real estate. Recently, I have added transactional funding services to short sale and REO inv...
![](https://bpimg.biggerpockets.com/no_overlay/uploads/social_user/user_avatar/96473/small_1621416841-avatar-nonbankloans.jpg?twic=v1/output=image&v=2)
I’m trying to get a read on what real estate values are doing in each geographic area where we do business. It’s one thing to read reports compiled by third parties, but it’s an altogether different story from the age...
![](https://bpimg.biggerpockets.com/no_overlay/uploads/social_user/user_avatar/232487/small_1621434980-avatar-fredcanfly.jpg?twic=v1/output=image&v=2)
Warning - this may be a long post - I will try to section it off. I have an on/off relationship with RE as I've always been drawn to it and always screwed it up - and then listened to those in my life who told me tha...
![](https://bpimg.biggerpockets.com/no_overlay/uploads/social_user/user_avatar/955121/small_1709302596-avatar-clintharris.jpg?twic=v1/output=image&v=2)
Short Term Rental Arbitrage analysis
This topic keeps coming up recently recently and I feel like a broken record, so thought I would post about it and share how I run an analysis on a potential arbitrage deal, and h...
![](https://bpimg.biggerpockets.com/no_overlay/uploads/social_user/user_avatar/77239/small_1621415250-avatar-luc.jpg?twic=v1/output=image&v=2)
So I just got off the phone with a prominent broker in the Orlando market. She mentioned that there is a lack of SFH inventory right now because the banks are holding back on foreclosures. She also mentioned that wh...
![](https://bpimg.biggerpockets.com/no_overlay/uploads/social_user/user_avatar/31020/small_1621365538-avatar-destind_2_rei.jpg?twic=v1/output=image&v=2)
I am a single mother of 2 "special needs" kids... I am a licensed Real Estate agent in WI.... I have no car, crappy credit, and no money... I LOVE real estate.... I have read at least 20 books, gone to at least 3-4 s...
![](https://bpimg.biggerpockets.com/no_overlay/uploads/social_user/user_avatar/849/small_1621345567-avatar-schockergd.jpg?twic=v1/output=image&v=2)
I've really been thinking over what mikeOH has been saying about "Do the work yourself, and the management yourself"
At first I can't say I agreed with him completely, but as time goes on I'm learning more and more ...
![](https://bpimg.biggerpockets.com/no_overlay/uploads/social_user/user_avatar/7876/small_1621348285-avatar-reiskills.jpg?twic=v1/output=image&v=2)
I would like all the senior people that post at BP to put up their best quotes to keep them going every day especially with disappointing circumstances , as an illness, a death , A deal that goes really wrong , A busi...
![](https://bpimg.biggerpockets.com/no_overlay/uploads/social_user/user_avatar/543196/small_1621492180-avatar-jjn3.jpg?twic=v1/output=image&v=2)
I've always had a glamorous & grandiose image of real estate investors...weird, right?! Yeah, I was one of those that thought the way to truly know you've arrived and become a big financial success is to let your...