BiggerPockets for a long time was a great place where investors could meet and exchange information and work together. Over the past year I have noticed a trend of a lot more newbies coming in just looking for informa...

I purchased a SFH for my primary residence about 3 years ago via short sale. Purchase price was 133K, I put down 20% with a 2.99%APR on a 15 year loan. I owe around 90k on it currently and it's worth roughly 180k. We ...

I purchase a new property in 2007 for $186,000 to be used as a rental property from day 1.  The property was initial rented for $1300.  Hindsight is 20/20 and not  good investment, but I'm trying to figure best way to...

I know over 5 Deal sponsors (active partners) who syndicate Multifamily apartment deals (they raise money from passive investors and manage the project) .I see that in the last couple of years most of them talk about ...

I have been working on a large mix-use commercial opportunity. I have an investment group who is willing to put up 99% of the money for this venture in phases, with 1% being raised by myself in exchange for a JV t...

Great article about new restrictions when selling a property and providing financing to the end buyer. These restrictions go into effect under Dodd-Frank on January 10. These are federal restrictions, not limite...

So what is everyone doing to find deals. I will share the things I do- as I do them, maybe others will as well.
So today, I sent out 350 emails to agents in texas asking if they know of any parks for sale in their ar...

Every time I read about the strategy of assuming a non-assumable mortgage alarms go off in my head. I have read the whole philosophy that banks would rather have a paying customer than foreclose. And this little vo...

Howdy from Waco, Texas! If I get a seller to sell me their house "subject to" and the seller passes away while I am still making the payments on their behalf, what happens to the note? What if I have owner financed t...