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I often hear the gurus and paid mentors talk about taking your business to "the next level". I'm wondering what that means. Does that mean that you should never be satisfied with the size of your business? Does tha...
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Would be very interested in some feedback. I've been managing apartments and houses for nine years and this is a first.
We hired someone to trim the hedges at one of our properties. While trimming, one of the resid...
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Dear BP Community,
It all looked so good on paper, and then when the project started things did not go according to plan...
I'm dealing with a painful first flip that I still haven't sold yet but purchased in Octob...
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Hey Guys!I haven't been as active on the forums near as much as I would have like to have been these past few months. Mostly because I've been scouring the MLS looking for deals or checking on our current rehab houses...
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Hey everyone. We currently have 3 long term rentals that have done pretty well for us and for our next purchase, I want to dive into a short term vacation rental. This will be located too far away from me for me to ha...
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Hi Guys, I have this crazy idea to sell houses without estate agents. There are numerous benefits to this other then the obviously huge financial benefits as an agents commission on average of 5% is not needed to be p...
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So I wanted to explore an idea here, and see if anyone has heard of anyone else doing it. But before I go there, I want to make clear that I'm not ADVOCATING this or any other shady business practices; I'm simply want...
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Hello everyone, I'm curious to know how much time are you guys spending on Bigger Pockets? I realized that this is a great way to network and find cool deals.
Hello BP, I am planning on resigning from my current job and pursue the career of a Real Estate Agent. I am not happy in my current position, although the money and benefits are good, I feel as if I am not reaching my...
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I've seen several posts related to losses from a BEC scam and came across this story of a title agent that lost some money to scamers and tried to recover from his E&O insurance.
The United States District Court ...