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I just listened to the podcast and heard that he is leaving. I’m sad to see him go. He is the face of BiggerPockets and published the BiggerPockets book that sold the most copies (The Book On Real Estate Investing). H...
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Hello,
I currently live in Philadelphia but may move in the future to NYC. I was wondering what would be some good areas to consider for a first time house hacker. It seems triplexes or quadplexes are the ones that a...
I hear the word success bantered about from time to time and was thinking, success carries a different meaning for everyone.
As a real estate investor, I feel that I have reached some measure of success when my rea...
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Hi All,Better late than never. My name is Justin and I was first turned on to Bigger Pockets about a year ago. I have been listening to the podcast and I am currently reading @Brandon Turner's book on Rental Property ...
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Hi Everyone,I am an aspiring investor from Toronto. I'm mainly interested in the buy and hold strategy, with a short term goal of buying my first property in the next few months. To get ready to do that I am trying to...
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Hi All! My name is Shannon and I live in San Francisco, CA. Currently 28 yo and have around 100k ready to invest. I am very new to real estate and currently do not own any properties. I and am looking for a market tha...
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Hello everyone.I am a new investor and have not done my first deal yet. I'm in the middle of reading the recommended books and going through "literally" all of the bigger pocket podcasts.I understand the 1% guideline,...
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Fellow BPers,I found a commercial retail property (strip mall) that I am interested in but I have no idea how to evaluate it. I've never done any strip malls before. How do I run the numbers? How do I know if this is ...
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Hi folks (or Howdy)... I am a complete newbie and have recently quit my day job to jump right into something new and real estate is fascinating to me, so here I am. I have no idea which niche to pick from the Ultim...
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Hello everyone!
I am fairly new to the real estate scene and have been silently educating myself through BP's forums, webinars, my own reading, podcasts, etc. I say fairly new because I own property in Chicago, curre...