Been owner of a two family for about ten years.  I have never (knock on wood) had the apartments vacant--mostly due to location (walking distance to subway in boston) and affordability.   Over the past, most of my scr...

Im sure you heard the chinese proverb: You give a poor man a fish and you feed him for a day. You teach him to fish and you give him an occupation that will feed him for a lifetime.I have a 13 year old and an 11 year ...

Today we entered into a contract to buy a 3 bed 2 bath House in Kansas City Mo for $145k. The house will rent for $1500 to $1700 per month.I’m teaching my daughter how to create a monthly budget and will set up a sepa...

Oh man...my back is killing me...

What started as some basic advice to some guy who pm'd me turned into a small essay. So anyway who knows maybe some other people who are starting from scratch could benefit from this...

Hello! David Dachtera here.This post is going to be a bit unpopular on Bigger Pockets because it's about education - Real Estate Investing education. The site as a whole has rather a strong sentiment against paying fo...

Hey everyone I've got roughly 60K to invest and I am looking for my first deal preferably in-state in Indiana. I don't have any access to credit but I would like to work on doubling my money in the next year. What wou...

My guess is that you had mixed thoughts when you originally read the name of this topic. I wanted to generate as much interest in it as possible and hope it will serve as kind of a warning to a lot of people here on ...

Now don't get me wrong - Everyone is a newbie once. I still consider myself one...I'm not trying to offend anyone here.
But I guess I've just lately been noticing just how many newbies who never bother to learn the bu...

Hope this post finds you well. As I sit here at my J-O-B sharing my first post to the bigger pockets family, I would like to get some feedback/ direction. So a little back story about me, I'm 20 years young from the ...