In today's post, I want to use experience I've had in two fields that I really love: databases and real estate. Specifically, with databases I want to go over new techniques using more data and varieties of data as it...

How do you estimate the ''exit cap rate'' on a commercial property? I understand that you can evaluate a sales price based on what the seller or broker presents as the cap rate and NOI, but how do investors determine ...

Hey, everyone. 
I've been deep down the rabbit hole lately and have been up every night geeking out on all things real estate. 
My original goal was to purchase a multi-family and later flip to fund more buy and hol...

Hey BP!So a little bit of background - I have EXTENSIVE experience with Yardi as a property management program for my 9-5 job in apartment management. I can tell you from experience that a great property management pr...

Podio is working great for me, but it got me thinking.

What do big players use? At some point, I feel like it might be easier to have something custom built. Perhaps SAP or something?

Anyone seen this side of the h...

Hello all,
Hope you guys are making big profits in your REI careers.
I am Yashank and also a student of the Data Science and Business Intelligence program at UNC Charlotte. This field has been so interesting to me a...

Does anyone know of an API I can use that I can push an address to and it will come back with the estimated ARV value of a property? I want to automated this process for my business. 

Between BiggerPockets estimator and Propstream, which rent estimator do you find most accurate? Or are they pulling from the same data source? (I saw a 2 year old post on this but wondering what' the most accurate today)

This forum description references hardware, so I figured this was a good place to ask if anyone has heard of the Flo water meter (they're still in beta testing). It monitors water flow and can detect leaks based on ch...

I have a burning thought that I can't get out of my mind... What separates lead sources?? How do we know that we can trust the information that we are getting from sites that sell data? Are these companies actually te...