I'm in my junior year of college and after a series of events am interested in real estate as a career but I would like to shadow a local agent or something first just to see if I would enjoy it. Is this a "thing" and...

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My name's Patrick, I'm an engineer in Naples, Florida and am looking to buy my first real estate investment. I've been on the site for some time but this is my first post.

I've placed offers on two d...

Hi BP -- Happy to have found such a great site with experienced professionals!  My fiancée and I are life insurance agents ready to get into real estate in the Chicagoland area. We have been searching for our first fi...

Hello everyone!  My name is Matthew Jones, I am from sunny southern California and I recently became obsessed with the world of real estate investing. I stumbled upon Bigger Pockets via YouTube after watching the podc...

My name is Dan. I am 50 years old and live in the bucolic college town of Charlottesville Virginia. I am an emergency physician and know that I don't want to do shift work forever although I do enjoy patient care. I b...

Is it me or does the couple on Flip or Flop have way too much success?  Every deal they do, with rare exception, seems to net them $75k!!  Is this show based in any reality or purely for entertainment?  The Cute blond...

Hello,I recently got pre approved and now looking at properties to house hack in the Chicago land area (suburbs). As I’m going through the MLS I’m coming up with my questions for the realtor. My questions for you all:...

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I would like to schedule a quarterly preventative maintenance inspection for one of my rental properties. The inspection would Include a through search for damages & red flags th...

I need some help editing my keyword search. I excluded words that I thought would be included, I even clicked the little red trash icon to start over. Nothing had happened. Anyone know what I should do. 

Notice that New York is the only city that is in the red in terms of appreciation from January 2016 - August 2016. The California cities are not doing too well either compared to the other major MSAs. San Francisco's ...