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Jim Bryant Anyone invest in the Illinois Valley, LaSalle-Peru Area
13 June 2023 | 54 replies

Just curious to see if anyone else is investing in this area.  Kind of a small place but with dirt cheap housing.   If anyone works in this area there might be opportunity for collaboration or at least war-story excha...

Ben Leybovich What is Bad Debt?
6 February 2015 | 50 replies

There's been a lot of discussion on the forums as it relates to differentiating bad debt from good.  The most common view on BP is that any debt which does not produce investment returns is bad debt.I, for the most pa...

David Benjamin Is real estate investing better than stock investing?
18 January 2024 | 34 replies

With stock investing I can spend a few minutes a month looking at stock prices and entering a buy or sell order in my brokerage account and earn 8% annually on average. To earn the same return with real estate, I woul...

Marcus Auerbach Newbies: investing is not rocket science - don't let the gurus tell you otherwise
11 June 2024 | 116 replies

Alright, I just read a post from a guru pitching services on BP. I did not want to respond with what I really think, but let me tell you my story here instead.
In 2007 I went to a RichDad seminar: after the free Thur...

Account Closed Crawl Space Moisture/Condensation
27 October 2016 | 23 replies

I'm working on a rehab for rental and pulled up the flooring (vinyl floor and carpet) and noted there was a ton of moisture (wet) in the existing wood floor. The house when I bought had been vacant with utilities shu...

Matthew Paul Things must be slow for real estate agents
10 May 2024 | 28 replies

I put my personal house up for sale on Zillow as a FSBO .  The responses have been overwhelming . In 3 days I have had 65 calls . Two from regular people and 63 from real estate agents .  They all seemed to be reading...

Holly Williams Passive Investments Enabled Me To Quit My Job Last Week
19 January 2023 | 63 replies

I began investing in syndications as a multifamily limited partner around 5 years ago, and the passive income that I'm making is enough that I was able to quit my job last week.  I'm 56 years old, and I was an accredi...

Jannah M. Advice for a novice Oakland real estate investor?
24 April 2018 | 26 replies

Hi everyone!  I'm new here to the Bigger Pockets forum.  (In fact, this is my first post!)  I'm really interested to see what expert advice I can obtain from the many real estate investors here.I have been fortunate i...