I wrote an article for the BP Blog asking a question about real estate appraisers and what role they are playing in holding down real estate values: http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2012/07/18/are-appraisers-pa...

Hi everyone, newbie here. I'm planning to buy my first investment this year. I'm trying to do as much due diligence as possible to protect my investment and assets if the real estate market crashes in the future.For b...

Hi BP,
My first post :)
I started in Dec 2019 and am now up to 3.9k a month in pure cash flow. Need to get to $10k before I think of quitting and gunning for the end of this year. Looking to still get educated and m...

In other podcasts and blogs it had been advised to network with agents to market for deals  by asking them if they have any sellers looking to move a property quickly. My question is what if they do? How would a whole...

I like to use Net Present Value when evaluating deals, but I don't see it a lot on this forum or other real estate evaluations. Can anyone shed some light on why not to use it?

All,I have a success story to share. But it is not a success for the reasons you may think. I really learned a lot from this and from these mistakes I have made I changed the way I do my thing and this is causing a no...

Most real investors should not buy from realtors unless the realtor is an investor themselves and understand the business. Unfortunately, most seasoned realtors don’t even know how to calculate a cap rate. Even less a...

Unfortunately I've been away for a few months while taking care of some personal matters, so I haven't been able to keep up on discussions. 
However, several months ago there were ample amount of folks here insisting...

So I'm in the process of looking at turnkey investing. I even made a post about it on BP but it didn't get many responses. A blogger I follow is "FIfighter". He's pretty reputable in the financial independence blogosp...

The role of the Appraiser is an odd one: Way too much art (opinions) and way too little science (data-analytics), with way, way, way too little accountability. While the world embraces tech tools to automate workflow...