Loren Thomas
Ask me your electrical questions!
I've been an electrician in Washington (the real one..) for 10 years, residential, commercial, and industrial. I've learned a ton from BP so this is me trying to give back with knowledge of something I know very well....
Joe Splitrock
I Bought a Short Term Rental Because of COVID
Today we got a little house under contract and it will be our first short term rental. Over the last few months, I have read countless posts on BiggerPockets about how short term rentals have been struggling with canc...
Toyin Dawodu
Why Do Most Investors Fail To Buy A single Property?
I was shocked, when I read a statistics about the level of success in the real estate investment industry. According to the information I read, only 5% of would be investors actually buy something. Does that mean, 95%...
Gregory Schwartz
What did I just do! Full-time investor during the Coronavirus!
Did I pick the best time or the worst time to jump in full time as a real estate investor?
December 2019 - I very confidently left my full-time job as an active USMC officer making over 100k a year.
January 2020 - ...
Wade Kulesa
Is Dave Ramsey correct? Anyone still around after 10 years?
I've been on the Dave Ramsey bandwagon for the last several years. His advice definitely worked to get us out of debt and allow us to save a pile of cash. But as I look to get more into real estate investing, there's ...
Henry Lazerow
The new NAR rules have actually made buyer agent commissions go up not down
Here in Chicago commission have typically been between 2 and 2.5 percent of gross sale price but now with the new rules I have not met any agents willing to take less then 2.5% so what has happened is the listings tha...
Rob Jones
PM Company Making me Pay the Utility Bill
Hello BP,I'm in a situation that I'd like to hear from other owners on. The PM company I use placed a tenant in one of my properties with a lease start date of May 1st, 2019. The PM company told me everything checke...
Rich Weese
Not only are we "dumbing down" in our education system, but ...
Now this. I guess just like students don't like to perform on tests, the Teachers don't like to have their tenure dependent on their ability to teach.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700039443/Pressured-teachers-t...
J. Martin
Recession & Job Loss Predictor: Leads by 2.5 years!!
As I was poking around at the relationships between jobs and potential predictors of job losses, I started looking at a mathematical representation of something less quantitative, that we are all familiar with. This s...
Blake Wood
First Rental in Expensive Market
Hello BiggerPockets,Would love to hear some opinions/feedback on what course to choose as I try to tackle my first rental property. I am an agent in San Diego and work with some of the top flippers in the area (If yo...