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Hi Everyone,
I thought I'd reach out and introduce myself to the community. I'm a software engineer at PayPal. I just finished reading Long Distance Real Estate Investing by David Greene and it spoke a lot about Bigg...
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Hello friends,
My name is Jessica and I live with my husband and kids just north of Dallas.
In 2011, my husband and I became reluctant landlords when we needed to move to a different suburb, but but the...
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I started working back in summer 2018 and was very interested in real estate investing. I bought my first property for self-living back in early 2019, a condo in Dallas TX. I was living by myself at that time, and was...
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Hello all. I'm a 20 year old male in the Austin/Manor TX area, and I really want to start investing in real estate. I've known about real estate for a little bit now but I barely started learning up on it a few days a...
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I am just getting started in my real estate business. What tips do you have for someone just getting started?
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I posted a thread a few days ago called why do we invest? There were a lot of good replies on that thread with many bigger pockets members listing their goal of 5000, 10,000, 12,000, or $20,000, per month for retireme...
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Hello all,
So I have been attending a local REIA in my area for last few months and I have seen couple of people who attend every meeting but haven't done any deal. I read some where on this forum that 90% of the rea...