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Nick Thomas Top 3 DIY Skills To Learn For Rehabbing?
6 July 2018 | 35 replies

Hello BP! As I am continuing to work on a real estate investing plan I began wondering what DIY skills my team and I should learn to do. What do you feel are the top 3 skills to do yourself rather than hiring a contra...

Adriel Hsu How I Made 12 Deadly Mistakes & Still Broke Even on my First Deal
13 February 2022 | 146 replies

My First Deal and the 12 Deadly Mistakes I MadeThe quick and dirty numbers: Purchase Price: $17,307Purchase Closing Costs: $2000Rehab Costs: $80,748Roof: $6538Foundation: $3000Handyman Labor: $19,284Dumpster: $4378Ele...

Daniel Ryu What do Brandon Turner, Josh Dorkin, Ali Boone, Engelo Rumora, and Matt Faircloth have in common? International speaking experience..
5 July 2015 | 29 replies

I know the forum posts that get all the 'likes' and 'comments'.. the ones that fire people up.. the success posts that begin, “I quit my job and closed my first deal!!” or “Finally reached our passive income goal!!”I,...

Branden Sewell That didn’t go as planned!
29 August 2018 | 152 replies

I reached out to a lender and I was told I had to have capital of my own. I thought you didn’t have to have capital? He told me any lender is going to require me to have capital. He basically told me to save up some m...

Chris Levarek 26 units in 10 months and 16 more under contract...
20 December 2021 | 60 replies

Sharing our success after a highly successful first year from 0 to 26 units closed in under 10 months. 
In early 2018 my brother @Ashton Levarek and I began educating on investing in real estate through podcasts, web...

Daniel Ortiz Reserves - How much cushion do you need?
17 December 2017 | 56 replies

Hi All, My goal is to purchase a multi family rental in 2018 and house hack it. I'm curious to know how much you all budgeted for reserves when you purchased your first deal? Would you take your 401k into consideratio...

Account Closed Hiring Interns for your REI Business
7 February 2013 | 28 replies

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to run this idea by the community and hopefully get some feedback on it:

In the past 6 months, I've been hiring unpaid interns for my real estate wholesale business. I've hired about 40+ so...

Jessica G. I'm proud -- first rehab
22 September 2014 | 50 replies

Tenants moved out of our first investment house in DFW, which we're selling for a few reasons. The left it dirty and battered. We wanted to turn it over as quickly as we could to reduce holding costs, yet we both ...

Sean Sloop BRRRR Success AND Failure - Lessons Learned in 2019
21 January 2022 | 102 replies

Hi All, Just wanted to post my experience with BRRRR method. I invested in Lansing, MI. I am originally from Grand Rapids, MI and currently live out of state in MN. Below is my 2019 experience jumping into real estate...

Cameron Dye What Should I be Doing as a 17-year old?
8 May 2021 | 139 replies

What's up BiggerPockets community! My name's Cameron and I'm a 17 year old high school senior from Fort Smith, Arkansas. I'm going to college next year at the University of Arkansas to study Investments and Securities...