Excerpt from a post I made on the stock investing forum "The Motley Fool." The audience is stock investors who are equally passionate and successful in stocks as the BP community is in REI. Many of them think going al...

Ok. We are in deflation now, and we don't know how long it is going to last.

Because of our government, we know that eventually interest rates, taxes, and inflation are going to go up, up, up. The most important pri...

Federal Reserve reduced its economic outlook for 2009.

The central bank said it expects some business conditions to improve in coming months, but it also lowered its assessment of the economy for the full year and sa...

I will start with two simple questions:

Are we at war?

Is President Obama the Commander in Chief?

2008 and 2020 are both years with unprecedented events that impact the economy, and hence real estate.History repeats itself, so are some lessons learned.For real estate investors who have lived through 2008, my quest...

The CRE CarnageThis exogenous and unexpected shock to the economy has proven to be a devastating blow to some and a gut check to others. Seemingly strong businesses have buckled under the unprecedented economic condi...

Sorry, I cannot past a link properly, but according to

http://www.clearcapital.com/company/MarketReport.cfm?month=January&year=2012

Since joining Biggerpockets, I've noticed one thing, everyone labels themselves as "investors". That covers a very wide swath. What specifically do you invest in, and what area of the country, or planet? REO's, short ...

Hello BP!! I'm a newer agent, and a lot of my clients are curious to see what the market will look like throughout the year. I give them my insight, but would like to know how other people are answering any of these q...

Learning: NEVER sign a contract if you are not comfortable with the contents, no matter how bad you want the property.I was a typical BP newbie. Searching for financial freedom, I stumbled upon rental properties as in...