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Porter Rappleye Why is REI better than investing in the stock market?
3 December 2014 | 165 replies

Hello Everyone!

I'm trying to convince my finance/MBA friend why REI is a better business decision than investing in the stock market and I'm not sure he's convinced. What is the best article on BP you've re...

Jason Merchey How Do Syndicated Apartment Holds Fail?
15 June 2019 | 62 replies

I'm looking into investing a good amount of cash in my first syndicated apartment deal. Buy-fix-reposition-hold. I am imagining there are about 25-50 fairly sophisticated individuals involved on the equity side, maybe...

Shannon Glanton How did you get started? Advice to newbies!
5 June 2022 | 54 replies

First post alert! Greetings Bigger Pocket Family!For those seasoned investors (or newbies), how did you get started?  Let's be honest, there is a wealth of information found all over the internet and in Podcast.  Howe...

Gerry Cohen DO NOT INVEST with SCOTT CARSON (We Close Notes) or Inverse Asset
10 July 2024 | 256 replies

I have been reluctant to broadcast this information to the note investment community, hoping not to "hang out my dirty laundry" with colleagues or the note investment community. However, it is time to speak out and ad...

Sheena R Roth Sweet 80 year old tenant can’t afford rent
12 May 2022 | 95 replies

We are under contract on a side by side duplex near our hometown in Ohio. We just found out that we are inheriting the sweetest 80 year old tenant who has lived in the place for 20 years. Market rent is $950+. This li...

Joseph Lucas Jr Landlord Tales and cautions
16 July 2018 | 31 replies

Happy Friday BP Nation!I am still very new to the world of real estate investing but I think I’m going to go down the path of buying, holding and renting. Now I talk with my fiance about this and she immediately bring...

Marlon Lacayo How to invest in-front of a looming real estate crash?
2 January 2021 | 41 replies

Hello, everyone!I'm a new investor that was keen on getting into the real estate market in 2021. As I'm reading more and more I'm seeing a pattern of belief that we are headed toward a real estate crash. Unemployment ...

Mauricio Hernández Short sale pocket listing. Fraud?
25 March 2014 | 56 replies

Hi I am new to this site and I'm in need of advice. I have been contacted by an agent letting me know of two of her shortsale listing that she guarantee the owners will take my offer. I went to see the houses and s...

Paul Choate Bought a Trailer Park at auction- feeling a little nervous....
22 November 2015 | 60 replies

I had been powering through bp podcasts and feeling my oats, so yesterday I went to an auction of a small trailer park just to see what it would go for. (I had previously seen it with the broker but they were asking t...

Timothy W. Do you keep a supply of food on hand?
16 September 2009 | 70 replies

This is not to be apocalyptic but to bring back to the front of people's minds a tradition that seems to have been lost recently. People used to keep pantries with significant stores of preserved food on hand in the ...