Adam Higginbotham
Struggling to find deals
New investor here. I have been walking through a lot of houses and trying to find a winner. I am getting some houses from wholesalers and their numbers seem to be very off. Ex: 130 purchase/50 rehab/240 ARV. I get my...
Shiloh Lundahl
At what point in time does a college education not make sense?
There is an economic term called diminishing marginal rate of return. Meaning for every one more unit sold the benefit becomes less and less. With the rise in college tuition costs and the strong emergence of availabi...
Clayton Crawford
Once again, i disagree with my broker. need some advice
About two months ago my Real Estate Broker offered me a condo before it was put on the market. I declined the offer because the price was too close to market value. I'm looking for buy and hold properties and i want t...
Anthony Then
Real Estate Investors! Are the return worth it instead of stocks?
The title says it all assuming you can get back 7% on stock gains yearly, going by current trends this seems extremely conservative, companies today seem to be growing much faster than the historical data we usually r...
Wendy Black
Comedian John Oliver on Mobile Home Perils
This made me cringe...We've got mobiles rented in NorCal by people of very modest means and have been mindful of that.https://slate.com/culture/2019/04/john-oliver-mobile-home-rent-rolfe-last-week-tonight.html
Rome Wells
Syndication question to multi family folks....
Question to all of the wonderful folks out there in this great Bigger Pocket website...I am curious to see how many of you folks actually started out as the limited partner... in a particular investment property... di...
Chris Clothier
Are Appraisers Hurting Real Estate Values?
I wrote an article for the BP Blog asking a question about real estate appraisers and what role they are playing in holding down real estate values: http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2012/07/18/are-appraisers-pa...
J. Martin
Being frugal paid off in RE: $1k car, $1MM in RE, $140K/yr gross rents, and free couches..
I was looking for advice on starting out in being a successful real estate investor (with no capital) years back and ran across a few people who gave some of the best advice I have ever received for that scenario: BE ...
Charles Ownby
Can't get past basic hurdles to start.
Hello. I was introduced by a coworker to BP who is a long time and highly experienced investor and he has poured a lot of knowledge into me, however, I think we're at a point where he isn't going to go any further wit...
Thomas Moran
Wholesale Contract - Is this legal?
Hi BP -
May or may not be in a debacle here so I wanted to consult the community. I am under contract via an assigned contract through a wholesaler. I just figured out the obscene margin that he is making (which does...