J. Martin
How Close to the Top? - SF Bay Area Housing Affordability Analysis - (w/ Charts & Graphs!) by me
Executive Summary:Because of the real estate I own, and prospective potential purchases, I wanted to know more about where we are in the real estate cycle in the SF Bay Area. Inspired by great students and researchers...
Luis A.
Appraisal issues on house I am flipping
Ok, so for the first time I have to deal with one of my flips not appraising for the sales price. I gave the appraiser a list of comparable recently sold, a list of repairs and before pictures of the condition of the ...
Account Closed
San Francisco/Bay Area Strategies
So I've been on BP for a few months and always follow the discussions in out-of-state markets that I'm interested in. The story is always the same with people from the Bay Area, Socal, NY, or any other large market t...
Mike Gennaro
How do I sell a mobile home via rent to own and remain compliant with Dodd Frank?
We would like to sell a mobile home via rent to own and remain compliant with Dodd Frank. We purchased the unit for $8500 in a park. I've posted it for sale on craigslist as follows and would appreciate suggestions fo...
Greg Moore
Anyone moving their investments to Bitcoin?
After watching a YouTube video from Ken McElroy stating 2020 is a wash, 2021 is the time to save up, and 2022 is likely the time to buy (when properties shift from motivated sellers to foreclosures to REO) I decided t...
Kel S
Another interesting way to make $ in RE??
Ok, so I was scanning Craigslist and came across an ad that basically went like this.
"Are you an out of town investor? Want to buy property but don't want to jump on a plane in order to see it? Let me help you! For ...
Kevin S.
What to do with $1,000,000.00?
I wonder what do someone approaching retirement do with $1,000,000.00? Buy a single property with cash and have about $65,000/yr in cash flow or use it for DP on a $4,000,000.00 property? Would the cash flow be the ...
Ben Leybovich
And There's the Truth About Current Market!
This article in the Globe tells the absolute truth about what Account Closed - do we buy into the upswing and thus speculate on the power of the wave (and in the process overpay relative to fundamentals), or do we con...
Joshua Dorkin
Updating the BiggerPockets Influence System
Hey All -
One of our upcoming projects is to update our influence system to one that better reflects a user's influence on the site.
We will be transforming the system from the current limitless influence scale to a...
Rich Weese
Quit blaming Bush!!
We're in a financial meltdown,imo and we keep hearing about that rotten Bush and the spending on Iraq war.
When will current pres start taking some responsibility for his part in our mess? According to the CBO, h...