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Economic Update
(Monday, September 14, 2020)
A majority of Los Angeles households face serious financial problems due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with Latinos and Black residents bearing the brunt of the economic pa...
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Hello BP community! My name is Kristian, and I'm a newbie (OK, longtime lurker) in my late 20s from San Francisco. It was always my dad's dream to build a portfolio of rental properties that would enable him to quit h...
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Hey everyone! I'm new to real estate and BP :) My fiance and I just moved to the Covington area as he got stationed in New Orleans with the military. Our goal is to invest in real estate, and build a portfolio which a...
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Anyone know where I can find vacant land with mineral rights? Would the regular land sites handle this or would I need to go through an agent? Nowhere particular just trying to see what’s available and what going pric...
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DeKalb County has been barraged with a number of new proposed cities, one of which is the (astonishingly boringly named) Greenhaven. This proposed city covers most of eastern & southern DeKalb County that's not a...
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Been lurking on here a couple of months... Reading the FAQs/Forums, etc. (haven't quite hit the podcasts yet) and such. Really feeling the "paralysis by analysis" thing. But hoping to pull the trigger starting in 2015...
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Thanks Theo Hicks for this amazing blog post.
In our recent interview with @Slocomb Reed and Phil, we looked at the importance of real estate investing and tax planning. If you use tax mitigation techniques like cost...
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Ok...I get it...apartment investing is THE best way to use real estate to escape the rat race in a short-ish period of time. How are you sourcing and financing the deals to allow for the escape of the 9-5?
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Hello BP compatriots and welcome to another edition on my real estate market analysis, coming at you from Nashville, TN. Every week I try to bring you a brief, hopefully insightful, dive into real estate and financial...
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Every time I talk to novice or new investor who is just starting out, I ask them what's your goal. I believe in goals whether personal or financial goals. Without a goal in mind, it's hard to plan and take action righ...