Dear BiggerPockets members, I've signed a contract for my very first investment property. After reading countless books, articles, forum posts and just about everything else, it's time. The numbers add up, however, I ...

I've bought 3 houses with conventional financing and the traditional 30 days closing from the MLS.  Easy enough with the agent, title co, and lending all doing their parts. But as a newbie, the initial process of maki...

Hi All!  I'm new to this group!  What financial mistakes did you make when you purchased your first home?Anything and everything is on the table!  For me, I didn't understand that the mortgage loan was offering the in...

Currently in a very interesting situation where I have the opportunity to purchase a property appraised at $550k for about $430k. You may be thinking that’s a great deal in of itself (and it is) but the caveat to that...

For the last two year I have been in Afghanistan as a civilian contractor making good money and decided to pay off my house. I paid it off at the end of last year I have been renting it out. I plan to stay here fo...

I'm going to start off by saying that I am extremely new to social networking sites, I have none but this one honestly and I'm 20 years old. I want to make real estate my profession. I am very knowledgeable of what...

So in attempting to build up my buyers list as I help my parents market their business directly to homeowners, through utilizing my FB network of real estate contacts I exported all of my email, about 950 in all, ...

Hello!I am looking to purchase my first OOS investment prop within the next 2-6 months. What are some of the biggest lessons you learned along the way? What do you wish you knew when you started?
A big question I hav...

So I need help figuring this out. I bought this gorgeous brick Duplex right before the market went up for 60k and at the time i purchased it because i had a partner that was going to finance the rehab (35-45k). the AR...

Getting ready to purchase my first rental and can’t shake the feeling that I’m going to make a major mistake. Curious as to what mistakes other investors have learned from when making their first purchase.