How do you strip thick paint off a deck? I put a little paint stripper on a patch, but it just gummies up the top layer slightly. Belt sander did a little better, but I would never finish. Is there a technique or p...

Hey guys my name is Adrian, and I was driving for dollars and found a couple abandoned home, but I can’t find any useful information on the owner like current address, or number, e-mail on the county records. So any a...

I am so excited to announce that as of today, BiggerPockets has 400,000 members. A lot of hard work has gone into this site, and I want to both thank and congratulate @Joshua Dorkin and @Brandon Turner for making and ...

Hey everyone, I'm a new member to bigger pockets. I am in the Navy and on my way to Guam. I have been following the BP Podcasts for awhile now and I'm looking to finally pull the trigger being in an area for a long en...

It has been awhile since I took out a mortgage. We have just been buy and hold investors using BRRR (before this term was invented:)  but finally have decided to buy a house for our selves. We found an amazing lake ho...

I am going through the numbers on possibilities of getting a down pmt to be able to get into investing.  One option I am exploring is to refinance our current house, rent it, and use my refinance cash to buy 2 houses ...

Greetings BP,My name is Gabe Tongate.  I am a novice real estate investor from the Peoria, IL area.  I have completed a few deals in the past years including flips and SFR buy/hold.  I am a current landlord and hope t...

TL;DR at the end if you don't feel like reading about my life story.I've been interested in RE since I was 15. My plan B if I wasn't accepted to college was to become a real estate agent, and later a broker.To my surp...

Does anyone have any experience with this lender or know of anyone that has experience with this lender? Marvin Edward George with World Financial Solutions? I'm getting a lot of emails with people saying they are pri...

I am looking for options on providing tenants with a venue to voice their displeasure with the PM. We had a situation that could have been nipped a lot sooner if the tenants could have contacted us directly.

If th...