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This is a serious newbie question, but I'll go ahead and ask anyway. I want to start flipping houses here in San Antonio and I'm seriously considering hard money. I've read about the Closing Costs associated with the ...
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Hey all.
I am thinking about diving back into wholesaling this year on a more aggressive scale. My intent is to send more letters/postcards as well as follow-up with all potential deals (something I was lazy about d...
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Hi everyone,
In this post ...
http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/12/topics/51498-question-on-market-evaluation
... I asked for some resources for the purpose of analyzing various markets, and respondents provided...
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Hi everyone,I have a hypothetical for you and I am new here so I am sure this topic has been previously discussed somewhere in the depths of these forums so forgive me for just outright asking and not diving into that...
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Hey everyone,
So I'm still in the learning phase of the world of REI, and one of the areas that has interested me is wholesaling. I'm curious to know what some of your biggest complaints, concerns, and horror storie...
I'm looking at a renovation project that I would live in for a couple years. The bank requires a licensed contractor to do the work but I can work under him for whatever I want to do myself. The guy I have in mind s...
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"Take action." Over and over, no matter the industry, everyone's best advice on getting started is to do exactly that, START. For 18 months I worked as a Transaction Services Associate at a large international advisor...
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If you read my background my husband and I started seriously looking into investing back in March, and since then things have taken off. I'm overly excited & nervous about the entire process, but after listening t...
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I noticed some BiggerPockets members asking about the rising cost in lumber and plywood, and given my background, I figured I wood (haha) weigh in on this subject. I currently work for a lumber company and I primarily...
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Welcome to our Question Of The Week!
Many newbies are always asking how they can get started, and I will without a doubt say "join a meetup"! Let's talk about how meetups have benefited you, where you found one, and ...