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Hi all! I’m a 24 year old aerospace engineer and flight instructor in the Seattle area.I’m originally from Rhode Island, went to college at Purdue in Indiana, and have been working in Seattle full-time since 2012.I r...
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Hi Everyone,I wonder how many people out there are like me. We are dreamers and know what we want to do, how we want to do it, and especially the BIG WHY, for freedom from a job and to follow your passion. However, ...
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So I’m 20 in college and going into my final two semesters of college and I’m reading my first real estate book and I wanted to do the housing hacking route in West Virginia (that’s where I go to school and what’s the...
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In the lending industry, there is a commonly used term called a “shopper” to describe a person who is calling every lender in town to find the best deal on a loan. Experienced lenders can usually spot a ‘shopper’ a mi...
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Finding deals is hard. Getting started is hard. Taking the plunge can be nerve-wracking and a familiar term on this site is analysis paralysis. Episode 233 of The BiggerPockets Podcast features Arianne Lemire, and he...
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First of all, sorry if this comes off a bit negative. I'm posting it in the off-topic forum because I don't rightly know which forum it belongs in.Okay, so I've been doing some research into turnkey RE investing bec...
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Hi All,Why is it that all these house flippers out there take 3-6-9 months or more to rehab their house?I mean no disrespect, I just want to start a discussion and let everyone play devil's advocate.I'm talking about ...
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Hi all, Newbie here, so please be gentle. I have to say I'm just shocked at the level of giving back I see around here. It's counterintuitive to think that such an opportunistic field of practice would have such a sup...
Hi everyone. In an attempt to try to stop my analysis paralysis, curious as to what established investors would do in the following scenario:$100,000 liquidNo Debt at allRemote IT Job making 100k/yr. Location is a n...
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Hello all,
My wife and I are at a fork in the road and need some guidance. For the sake of a little background, we bought our first home two months shy of two years ago and have fully renovated it. We bought the ho...