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Hi all!My name is Brandon Hood, and I my real estate background when in 2005 when my parents joined the industry as Realtors, and I heard allllll about it. Fast forward 10 years, a housing bubble burst (my parents ar...
Hello Everyone,First time poster but long time reader of all the good information and advice on BP.Let me pre-face this by saying that I have reached out to some cross border tax specialists, and some I am still await...
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Hello everyone, Roy Czach here from fabulous Elgin, IL So excited to become part of this amazing community.I was born and raised in Chicago, following my father and older brothers footsteps into the families automotiv...
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I keep coming across posters asking for advice on how to “scale” their investment or business activities. What they’re missing is that they first need to ask “Is my business / investment process scalable? Here’s, th...
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The title of this post may get me into a little bit of hot water, but I ask that any moderator read a little further before drawing conclusions. I hope this term helps to serve as motivation to other investors, and th...
Hello! My name is Cole Stevenson and I'm very new to real estate. I was born in Detroit and raised in Ypsilanti. I suppose I feel a certain kinship to the greater metro Detroit area and that's where I intend to do bus...
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Hello all,My name is Cal Douglass. I'm a licensed architectural engineer with 8 years of experience practicing mechanical, plumbing and fire protection design in Baltimore, DC and the surrounding areas. I currently...
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My wife and I are on our journey to become rental properties owners , as of now our plan is to purchase our 2nd home and put our primary for rent then refinance and take a equity loan on our primary and invest in a 3r...
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Something that I like to do is go to events, read books, listen to podcasts and then distill them into the most useful nuggets of information to pass on to all of you. Recently I went with some of the 7 Figure Flippin...
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Hi BP,I havent been on here in a long time. Just wanted to say I owe a lot of my success to the BP community and all the contributors. Quick background on me now, I am now 24 years old. I own a multiple 6 figure, soon...