I saw an excellent piece of advice in our Official BiggerPockets Facebook Group today. "I created an operating procedures manual. Details all vendors, bills, banking setup, tenant details, current outstanding projects...

I remember reading this article when longtime pillar of the BP community, Brandon Hall wrote it a few years ago. I'll let the article speak for itself, but if I were to distill it down to a sentence: When it comes to ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSQTz1bccL4

Liberals and Democrats, your people have been in charge of every branch but the Judiciary for 2 years now. This was not going on during Bush. If I were you I would be maki...

I am being told by an attorney that because of the Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 I cannot get a seller to hold the paper. I do not understand because I hear of people doing this.

Are you doing anything for your tenants over the holidays? Any gifts? Holiday card? Etc... Or nothing

Hello everyone,I am new to BiggerPockets but already have found this community very helpful, so thank you! My wife and I are both dentists in Kansas city, MO. Our first goal was the buy a 2-4 unit to get started and I...

The purpose of this forum will be to give practical solutions vs pulling the "crash n crush" alarm like a previous thread. I have a few suggestions that I have implemented and am interested in hearing from other inves...

I've only been in this business a few years, but have purchased a lot of deals.  Mostly from motivated homeowners, and bank foreclosures, which I understand and expect many of those to be in bad condition.  But lately...

Hi BP-ers!Recently my REIA hosted a speaker from a firm who write self-directed IRAs. This seems like a valuable tool for investors but when I spoke to my accountant about it she said they could only be opened by indi...