I am a newbie just trying to get started with little money and no computer skills.  My strengths are analyzing deals and I have good financial acumen.  I drove for dollars 3 hours last week and found 45 properties.  I...

Hi fellow biggerpockets colleagues!!!!...I have been studying various markets looking to make my first solo rental property investment for quite sometime and living in expensive markets (i now reside in DC) without a ...

Hello All!I'm such a data nerd. Let's just get fact that out of the way. I got so excited about my current project that I felt the need to jump on here and share some details with the BP community. This is a long post...

When I did my first deal I got my comps from online websites such as Trulia. Of course, that did not go so well and the price turned out to be very high. Now I have a realtor who pulls MLS comps on a wide range of pro...

I'm new to the REI and do not have access to the MLS yet. Is it safe to use Trulia, Zillow or Realtor.com for my comps, if I'm using them all? I"m also using the county assessor site to get assessment price from th...

I have been using Podio for over 4 years and this System Outage is the longest I've seen.  Just about every aspect of my company is in Podio, we have roughly 20 apps that we use on a daily basis.  It is crippling to g...

Hi all,Starting this week, I am going to begin weekly market updates for the San Francisco Bay Area, East Bay specifically (Pleasanton, Livermore, Dublin, San Ramon, Oakland, Berkeley, San Leandro, Hayward, Fremont et...

I have my own opinions about Zillow's accuracy for valuing property. But I want to know yours. It's one of the most visited sites online and so many people trust their values because it's strong brand online.If you us...

Hello BP forums!
First post here and I am completely new to real estate investing.
I live in Connecticut and I have settled on wanting my first investment to be in Connecticut. This is currently the only thing I am ...

Here's a quick market recap for the Austin area during the week of April 2 to April 9. The largest outlier is the high number of temporarily off market properties in the residential for sale market. This time last ye...