The best investment advice I can give to newer investors can be boiled down to one item: PREPARE. One can hardly pull the trigger with any confidence if you don’t know your market well. Without this knowledge, you w...

Just wanted to gauge the temperature out there for the experienced wholesalers/investors in Mass and specifically near Boston on where I need to be when putting in offers to wholesale and assign to others. Is the ARV...

Hello all, need help seeing what I'm missing. I'm a loooong time reader/watcher and first time having a seemingly perfect opportunity fall into my own back yard/ neighborhood. Been looking for a tri / quad forever in ...

Hello BPers.I'm applying for a HELOC so I can start investing. When applying, banks ask why you are taking out a HELOC. While I will also use the HELOC for things such as my son's educational expenses etc, that won't ...

Hi all,I'm looking at a potential development deal in Daly City on a lot zoned R-1. Has anyone applied for a zoning change / variance before with the city? A few questions:1. How likely is the process to succeed?2. Ho...

I read about estoppel certificates and get the concept. Would it be out of line to request them as a buyer in a residential (fourplex or less property), or is that overkill and/or just not done?

So here I am in the corporate world like many 9 to 5'ers here on BP and trying to build a portfolio of passive income. As we all know this takes time and is by no means a get rich quick play.It seems about every few m...

Hey guys,I'm reading a lot of great posts on BP regarding marketing lists, yellow letters, virtual receptionists, etc. However, the challenge I am having is that most of these resources seem to be dedicated to the US ...

Hello everyone! My fiance and I are new to real estate investing and to the BiggerPockets community and are hoping for some assistance with figuring out how we can house hack a duplex on our way to bigger and better d...

Hello BP community!My wife and I are excited to start our first deal; however, I am having analysis paralysis with choosing a market. I just had many of my limited believes around needing to invest locally removed by ...