My inspiration for real estate investing came from reading Rich Dad Poor Dad. I was so intrigued and held captive by every word in the book that I read it in less than 24 hrs. (It would've took less time if i locked m...

Hi BP! My name is Scott and I am just starting out my real estate investing venture this year. I find it to be imperative for all investors to look back on their past and understand how their formal educations have he...

I was just wondering how everyone started their endeavors into the Real Estate world. How old were you, what was your first deal, and just what brought you into Real Estate. Just thought this might be interesting fo...

How can I find Private Lenders that are willing to invest? It's more difficult than I anticipated

A turnkey home for 100k renting for 1k (1% rule) would net you worse than the stock market 16 years later. I went back through my 1099s and calculated my return and estimated closing costs, federal taxes, capital gain...

I'm a gun owner and I own "that" rifle and "those" magazines, but the Sandy Hook incident has changed my mind. It's not just guns, but guns are part of the picture and such needs to be addressed. I had teachers that h...

While cashflow is key to keep the property safely under control, I seem to find that the larger returns for our portfolio to date come from strategic growth of equity. My wife and I are still fairly small in our inves...

Today, in Sept 2018 the Stock Market is at 28,000. An all time high. The average wage is $26 per hour. It takes 1,077 work hours to “buy the market”. That is, if you buy one share each of the stocks of the Dow, the co...

So we've spent the last 7 months looking at deals daily.  We have run the calculator on this site to the point I don't even need to think to put in the numbers...but literally nothing has panned out.  5 cities, 600+ p...

I’m starting this thread in response to the recent bankruptcy filing of Peer Street. Several Peer Street investors seem to be on bigger pockets, so I wanted to get us all on one thread, if possible to share resources ...