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My name is Jeff Young and I'm 36. I live in Sarasota, FL and have been here for the past 21 years. I've been reading several books, listening to podcasts, and browsing these forums. After listening to the recent webin...
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Good morning everyone out there who is operating in the Real Estate Industry!I’ve been browsing behind the scene of the Forums and the BP community. Already I love the new member process and could hardly wait to say ...
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Hey everyone, I've been lurking and taking in BiggerPockets content for some time now but realized I haven't made an introductory post yet!
A little bit about me:
- Just finished reading "Retire Early with Real Esta...
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Hello Bigger Pockets,
My name is Dustin Strekow and although I have been browsing the site for many months now I am finally introducing myself and getting my hands dirty so to speak with all that BP has to of...
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Hi BP Community,Happy New Year!I am super excited to start 2015 with my new passion Real Estate Investing. I am an IT professional working fulltime. I have been browsing BiggerPockets for last 2 weeks and listening to...
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Hi all, So I am a first time home-buyer looking to purchase a real estate property in the NYC metro area to either live in and/or rent out. Was taking a look at all the different types of loans out there and was a bi...
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Hello to all. Just need some advice. I live in edmonton alberta and would like to start wholesaling houses. The problem is I can hardly find any information on the subject in Alberta. I just need straight forward step...
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HELLO fellow Bigger Pockets Colleagues. I'm hoping that this is the right area to post a new member introduction. Joshua pointed me here, so there must not be a separate forum for just introductions. If there is, plea...
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My boyfriend and I are looking to purchase a 2-3 family as our first property in the 250k range or lower. We would definitely do an FHA. We currently live in Rutherford, NJ, only 17 minutes from NYC. We are dying to g...