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Jason Pritchard Found the remains of the previous owners wife at one of my flips
13 September 2015 | 73 replies

Sooooooo.....I just recently purchased a house that I am in the process of flipping and today one of the guys in my contractors crew found the cremated remains of the previous owners wife in the garage.  I have tried ...

Wendell De Guzman How Do You Predict The Next Real Estate Crash? Mine is...
18 August 2015 | 30 replies

Mine is foreclosure filings and REO sales.Let me explain.In 2007, I was working on 20 shortsales and a business partner of mine was working on about 40 shortsale cases. None of the shortsales were accepted. This was u...

Sam Leon Big box store employees
18 June 2020 | 32 replies

I was wondering, how does the big box stores like The Home Depot or Lowes hire their "tech" people?I mean, if you work at the plumbing aisle and are giving out advice to DIYers aren't they suppose to have some clue on...

Michael Herr No thinset under cement board
4 February 2022 | 61 replies

Just went to inspect some work and noticed they weren't using thinset to lay down the cement board under porcelain tile.

When I asked the contractor, he asked his flooring guy who had been doing tile for 25 ...

Michael Ryland Negative reactions from friends and family
23 April 2019 | 74 replies

My wife and I are just starting out and now have two rental properties. We are excited about these opportunities so we can’t help but tell those who are close to us. We were sitting down and sharing all of the not so ...

Nat C. "We bought 100 properties without using any of our own money"
9 August 2016 | 69 replies

This statement is something I keep seeing again and again on the Bigger Pockets blogs;people saying they flipped 100 properties using someone else's money. They proclaim they had one of their investors pay for the pur...

Lubica J. Is real estate investing for cash flow still possible in Canada?
9 May 2023 | 40 replies

Hi, I am new to Bigger Pockets and would love to hear your opinion.
My partner and I would like to buy our first property for house-hacking in Canada to start our journey in real estate.
We have been researching ma...

Rob C. Hard Knock #1
9 December 2012 | 33 replies

My first attempted deal in REI turned into a bust yesterday as the seller failed to perform. I'm hoping to field some advice from the biggerpockets crowd on how to handle this situation. It's a bit of a long post (sor...

Chan K. My Tenant Messaged Me and Asked for 2 Weeks Extension
16 April 2014 | 63 replies

My BP Landlord Community,

One of my tenants messaged me and told me that she won’t be able to pay her rent on the due date. She will need two weeks extension. She sounded very confident as she had done someth...

Alan Pederson The last laugh. My 2 cents about investing.
2 October 2018 | 61 replies

My day job is for a paper company. I'm a salaried manager and I've been working here for 33 years. A few years ago me and my wife started buying rental property so we could retire a few years earlier than we normally ...