With a new year among us comes new opportunity for investment, particularly investment in commercial real estate. In this post, I will discuss 4 large US markets which I believe to be ripe for commercial real estate i...

People love "life hacks." A life hack is a simple strategy/process/tool/trick for improving your life in an unconventional way. For example: So... I am writing a post about "Landord Hacks" - it's the little things tha...

This will be a continuously updated step by step BRRRR post.  I stole this idea from @Lesley Resnick so I first need to give her some credit. I really enjoy reading about her progress and it inspired me to do it as w...

Today I won two separate auctions for two foreclosed properties in Baltimore, Maryland. One for $12,100 and the other for $18,700. They both need work as well. To top it off Im using personal loans to pay for them. I ...

I just finished reading Christine Karpinski's book 'How to Rent Vacation Properties by Owner' . The slant of it was that if you manage yourself and use portals like Airbnb, vrbo, etc. you can break even or even get po...

Ok, so I understand that everyone's situation, property, location is different and thus I'm stressing that this was just my own personal experience and I'm over it - after only 2 weeks ;-)Beginning of the year I decid...

Interested in learning from the Bigger Pockets community if people are doing a lot of syndicated deals? If so, what asset classes are you investing in? Are you seeing good returns through syndications?

Any common p...

I have been a part of BP for over a year now and have been a smoker since I was way to young, but my question is when did smokers get such a bad rap?I personally don't smoke inside of even my own home, not even once. ...

What are your favorite add ons to add to your lease? Do you have an addendum to your standard residential lease? Examples:  Smoking is prohibited in the unit. LANDLORD permits the use of parking space #XXXX t...