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Last week we hit our investment goal of $35k a month gross rental income. We bought our first investment property in August 2011 and the vast majority of our growth has happened in the past 10 months. We (my husband...
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So I did a thing today. I quit my 9-5 job on the spot, no warning. No back up plan. And no money (well, I have $60 bucks). Now, before you call me crazy, hear me out. The job sucked. It was the most stressful, mind nu...
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Hey everyone, I'm Zach Williams. I live in Little Rock, Arkansas at the moment. If you can't tell from my title, I'm very ambitious, a bit naive, and extremely motivated with huge goals.
Professionally, I'm a Lead H...
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Hello BiggerPockets community! I'm Mike from St. Louis, just starting out. I'm particularly passionate about STR and LTR.
Outside of real estate, I enjoy hiking, reading and soccer.
Excited to learn and connect with...
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Hello BP Community,My wife and I are newer to Bigger Pockets, joined in December of 2015, and love it so far. We found BiggerPockets.com by accident searching on Google. We are from San Jose, CA and became intereste...
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Hi Everyone!
I'm Micheal Waldrup. Active-Duty military, currently with 10 years of service in Nuclear Power. I'm due to get out in January of 2015 and plan to transition to a career doing freelance programmin...
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My wife and I are finally taking steps to get into real estate investment. We owned a rental property many years ago and as life goes, we got caught up with our careers and as our family grew, our free time went...
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Hello All,My family and I live in Hampton, VA on a USAF base. My enlistment expires in July 2016 and I intend to transition back to the civilian world. We are checking out various places to settle, with the mid-Atla...
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Hey everyone! I couldn't honestly call myself a newbie....I've been "investing" for over 18 years. In 2005 I was able to leverage the equity from the sell of a rental property to start my current business. That was ...
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Hello fellow BP members,I have been in the real estate industry for over 10 years as an analyst, so I have decided to redirect my focus on real estate investing.I have been to a few OCREIA meetings and have met some g...