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I don't understand people who are long term tenants, and the logic behinds it bothers me. They are paying monthly rent to other people, which doesn't make sense to me. If they have money to pay rent each month for lon...
I'm a 19-year-old college student in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I recently talked to a doctor who is aspiring to live in Manhattan, New York about real estate.When I asked him about how I wanted to start investing in r...
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In another thread this debate was started. Is your primary dwelling an investment?
One argument for is that you expect your primary dwelling to appreciate, therefore, it is an investment.
However, an a...
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(Disclaimer: I totally took the formatting of this post from another post by Anton Ivanov that I liked a year back!)
A Little Backstory
I am currently 30, married, no kids, living in Gilbert, AZ and working as a fin...
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The average mortgage debt in Toronto is $194, 000 and 259, 000 in vancouver. Given the average house price is in toront and vancouver is north of a million are we surmising that the average torononian is mega rich? ...
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Does anyone think that Chicago's record tax hikes and the possibility of a tax exemption for property's under $250K will lead to a new round of gentrification largely driven by Millenialls wanting to live in the City ...
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I have everything ready to put in an offer on a 12 plex in Bismarck, North Dakota (where I live) today and just wanted to run it by my brothers and sisters on bigger pockets before I pulled the trigger. Truth be told,...
I am just getting started in real estate investing with intentions of buying buy and hold cash flow properties regularly over the next six months to a year. I recently bought 2 homes in Indianapolis and plan to retur...
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Maybe, Maybe not but according to these folks it is!The Best and Worst Metros to Be a Real Estate InvestorThoughts?