Contractor currently charges % on total spent which gives him no motivation to keep bids low or fight for better deals with subs/suppliers. Wanted to get some ideas on how I can incentivize him to be motivated to get ...

Reading Ray Dalio's book makes me contemplate some more about where real estate is heading. Looking back at the last 15 years everything seems so predictable. New housing starts grew year over year and well exceeded l...

I put the following tirade together to show my friend how real estate beats the market (equities, stocks). The scenario below is the actual property I purchased last year. Please let me know if I'm off on my assumpt...

I've always had a glamorous & grandiose image of real estate investors...weird, right?!  Yeah, I was one of those that thought the way to truly know you've arrived and become a big financial success is to let your...

Hello Biggerpockets!I have discussed some of the details on my first project in other post, but I wanted to give an update on my first intentional investment property. A little background on me: I have always wanted t...

I've done a couple of flips, but I don't know much at all about buying land and building on it from scratch.

Just came across a potential opportunity to purchase about an 10,000 sq ft of land in LA County. Th...

Howdy BP Family, I feel as though I have gained a year of experience worth of being an AirBnB host in a week. For over a year I have been working on building a garage apartment in my backyard in the Houston Heights n...

Hello people of BP,

I have a 4-plex in Mesa AZ that is two-storied. One of the second floor tenant installed tile floor on her unit - as the result, the floor bowed down due to the weight of the tiles. I trie...

How can a newbie do this without hiring estimators each time, and making the process cost prohibitive?