OK, maybe not ghosts but may as well be. I've contacted brokers on loopnet and other sites asking for a T12 or Schedule E, etc. Maybe 2 have not only responded, but responded with the requested data, and in just minut...

Hell on EarthA Story About the World’s Worst Real Estate Flip.As I sit down at my desk to write this story, I actually don’t know the outcome of this home flip. What I do know, is that whether I lost money, broke eve...

Most of us on these forums strongly consider multi-family to be a solid investment, but not everyone fully understands why. On the other hand, many people have fears over a stagnating economy... We can only go this ha...

Dear Pocketers,

How do you harden / bullet-proof your rentals?

While I've never had anyone utterly trash a rental of mine, I've seen the damage they can do first hand (typically when buying the rental and seeing ...

Hello everyone!I am closing on a 20 unit building and my goal is to make it as "green" as possible. It currently has 7 vacant units, it is a 1928 brick building with a flat roof. So, I am looking for any and all of th...

Hi everyone, newbie here. I'm planning to buy my first investment this year. I'm trying to do as much due diligence as possible to protect my investment and assets if the real estate market crashes in the future.For b...

One of my goals over the past 6 years has been to produce a real estate investing conference unlike any we've seen before. I believe that BiggerPockets is in a unique position to create a conference that changes the ...

I have lived in the San Francisco bay area for the last 15 or so years, and am anxious to start doing some buy-and-hold investing.  However, it seems that price-to-rent ratios are solidly over 30 in my area, and gener...