Pat Tobin
[Salt Lake City - Utah] Ideas for Phasing Out of SFH House Hack
I've been trying to brainstorm ideas about what moving out of my SFH house hack would look like after a couple years. I purchased a SFH 6 bedrooms / 4.5 baths in Salt Lake county in the Silicon Slopes area with explo...
Taylor Davidson
Ways to get creative with loans/purchasing when in a "saving" phase.
Good Morning all, I purchased my first investment property in January of 2022 right before interest rates skyrocketed. My plan was to live in the residence while I fixed it up and eventually either rent or sell for pr...
Scott Preckwinkle
New to BP and beginning phases of become a real estate investor
Hello BP Community,I'm not exactly new to BP but haven't been very involved in the past. I recently upgraded to being a Pro Member because my wife and I have finally made the decision and commitment to becoming real e...
David K.
RBPlat to invest in $250.9m housing project – Phase II for its workers
South Africa’s mining company, Royal Bafokeng Platinum will, in the next five years. Read more here on that story.
Dexter Wallace
Turnkey Real Estate Investing
Hey BP!So In my continued research into real estate investing, I came across Turnkey Investing. They offer a lot of positives for the investor who is just starting out or is looking into part-time investing. I know ac...
Ericka G.
Use Leverage or Stick with Cash?
If you have cash, should you use it or is it better to use leverage if you can? So far, I've almost exclusively used cash to build our small portfolio. My goal for the year was to fully replace my current after tax ...
Alex Varner
Contractor requesting 50% Upfront
Hello,I have a contractor that is requesting 50% of what he quoted the job up front. It isn’t a super large sum of money, but I’m curious on what type of things I should do/look for to protect myself. As of now all I ...
Jim K.
Do You Understand How Ugly This Is Going to Be?
There is nothing sane about what you have to be prepared to do in order to make a start in this business. Please take that as a given. The only thing I can fully agree with Grant Cardone about is his statement that re...
Michael Warinner
I dropped out of college last week.
I’m 20, and I just dropped out of college to pursue RE full time. It’s not that I was bad at school- I had a 3.1 GPA heading into my junior year, but I just decided that since I have clarity on what I want in life, th...
Marcus Auerbach
Thank God I had an LLC!! - Said no one ever!?
In 15 years in the biz I have not met someone who got sued and was saved by having an LLC. Every new investor gets hung up on asset protection and there is an entire industry catering to asset protection. There must b...