Benjamin Ford
Using Rentals to Pay For Student Loans
I went to school and earned two engineering degrees (BS and MS). Then, being the glutton for punishment I am, I continued on to law school. This was not a series of random choices. Rather, there was a method to the ma...
Andrew Pettit
Is it WORTH Finishing my BA in Finance...?
Hey BP, I want your opinion on whether or not I should finish my second degree in finance? I already have a BA in Political Science and a minor in Finance & Business Management. Is this even worth it?
Shiloh Lundahl
Why you shouldn’t jump into real estate hoping to avoid a job
On a lot of new investor posts, I read that they want to replace their full time income with passive income from real estate investing. Which all in all is not a bad thing but I think their time frames to do this is n...
Account Closed
Does a college degree help?
Does a college degree help? Should I major in Finance or Real Estate? Both? Or is real life experience better for learning how to invest in real estate? My goal is to do this full time. What is the average time span f...
Alex McKelvey
Pros/Cons of house-hacking strategies as an airline pilot
With so many possibilities of how to begin my real estate journey I’ve been having a difficult time narrowing down the strategy I’d like to use. Therefore, I wanted to reach out to the Bigger Pockets community to help...
Brad Cook
Becoming a Mortgage Loan Officer
I have been looking into a career change, and unfortunately with my financial situation I am unable to jump into REI. I have been doing research into becoming a loan officer to learn the financial/loan side of REI whi...
William Brooks
New member from Houston, TX!
Hello everyone, My name is William Brooks. I am a senior at Sam Houston State University studying construction management and business. I have also been studying real estate investing for 2 years now while a student i...
Chris Pierog
Should I become a realtor? Tips? Suggestions?
A spot has opened up in a successful realtor business in my hometown.
I’ve been thinking about being a realtor for awhile now and I think I will be jumping the gun and do it.
I plan to work super hard, the owner is ...
Susan M.
Success is lonely
Ever since I was a kid I always had more than my friends. Not because my family was rich but because I worked for it. While everyone else was hanging out, I was working. When everyone else was in college, I was ...
Amrakh Rustamov
Starting my investing career
Good evening everyone, my name is Amrakh Rustamov. I have been in the trucking business since I was 18 and I’m really looking to make a change in the career to have free time of my own. I have been really interested i...