Real estate can be hedge against market volatility when stocks take a tumble, and there are many perks associated with owning an investment property. Becoming a landlord is a smart way to generate a steady passive inc...

Hey, I am just starting out and I want to get into buy and hold real estate investing. And I was thinking about investing in Greenville, since I live in the Greenville area and I know this market better than any other...

Hi BP, I run a small time property management company that helps take care of STR's and second homes in Summit County, Colorado; an area completely saturated with STR's, and I'm starting to see a correlation of pain p...

I'm seeing high electric bills in our STR properties and was wondering if anyone had tried using a web thermostat to reduce power usage when the unit was vacant.  The idea would be to turn the AC up (higher temps) whe...

Hello BiggerPockets VR friends!  I've heard that some people offer their guests Netflix.  We own a VR cabin in Gatlinburg, TN and this would seem to be a really nice amenity to consider adding.  Here's the problem, I ...

Hi All,This is my first post on here but I have been entrenched in real estate research and analysis for quite some time now. There is one question that I have been grappling with for awhile now that I would love to g...

Welcome to A Skeptical Dude’s Take on Real Estate: a frank, hopefully insightful, dive into real estate and financial markets. From one real estate investor to another.
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Fannie and Freddie are obviously doing a terrible job of assessing risk for borrowers with their mounds of prescribed paperwork. Apparently the Danes allow borrowers to access loans via the secondary market directly w...

Hello, trying to get an idea on keyless entry people are using to manage their vacation rental properties.

I’m looking for something I can control remotely that also has a temporary passcode features that I can prov...

I was originally going to post this in the Glenn Beck mall thread. Decided it would not really fit, since this was developed from a tangent that developed in previous thread.

TC and others- I've decided that well th...