I modified a house with a walk out basement from Single Family into 2 units. My plan is to live in the smaller downstairs unit. I finished the upstairs renovations and now have renters in it, but the down stairs is no...

Hi BP!  I just moved to the Bay Area, CA in January after getting married on New Years.  Since I left my old job it was time for a new career as well.  I picked real estate!  In April I started my job at a property ma...

Hi All, Been a listener of the BP podcast for awhile now and I finally got around to making a profile. I am an Aerospace engineer working in Carpinteria and I bought my first property in Ventura, California at end of ...

My wife and I have been floating around the edges of real estate investing for the past couple of years. We started by joining a real estate mentorship group in early 2013 and starting to absorb as much information as...

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I'm a renter in Charlotte, NC that's considering buying my first house. I'm very interested in real estate investing, but I want to get some feedback from the community, as I'm not entirely sure that it's for ...

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I’m a former corporate data scientist turned full-time investor. I’ve had a tough but rewarding journey these past few years and I’d like to share my personal experience to hopefully help others in the ear...

In the 2 previous threads on this same RE retirement -goals, I mentioned how you can retire and really enjoy life for under 2K per month and golf EVERY day. Here is how you save money(read TAXES & FEES). If you ...

Hi all, I live in New York and am looking for an investment property out of state. I am mostly interested in single or multifamily rentals and am currently looking in Texas(Houston, Dallas, Austin) and Colorado(mostly...

Seems like most posts on here are about the "How" of real estate investing, but not as much about the "Why."

So why do you invest? Is it just to have more and more income? Is it to reach a certain amount of cash flow...

I come to think a lot of why people want to invest, particularly in RE.

I have "worked actively" since I was very young with selling candy on the bus to working at a carwash when I was legally able to, to bui...