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Rich Lennon The Government Nationalized My Rental Portfolio
30 May 2020 | 79 replies

I am still at a loss to understand how the government has gotten away with Nationalizing my SFH rental portfolio in the blink of an eye.  When Donald Trump announced that there would be no evictions on any federally b...

Joshua Dorkin The Top 5 Landlord Mistakes
5 December 2021 | 211 replies

I'm looking to see if we could compile a list of the top 5 mistakes made by landlords. I'll throw out a few and hopefully we can come to some kind of consensus.

Note - to all who participate,...

Melanie Stephens Seeking Biggest Mistakes and Lessons Learned Stories (Again!)
28 January 2022 | 134 replies

Hello BP Members! I write a regular column for BiggerPockets Wealth Magazine on people's "Biggest Mistakes" in real estate. Do you have a "mistake" story and lessons you learned from it? I'd love to hear it! (Thanks t...

Andrey Y. How to determine how many investment properties to buy
9 March 2015 | 277 replies

First of all, I really do appreciate all the helpful guides and discussions on here to help educate a new REI such as myself.We can all invision the statement "It is better to purchase 5 properties at 20% down, and fi...

David Song Why to avoid < 50 k properties
2 July 2018 | 338 replies

If a house sells 50 k and rent for 1000, it meets 2% rule. But actually I think it is not necessarily a good investment.

Assuming SFR, 1500 sf, 3 be 2 ba, in small Midwest town. Move on ready. 30 years old. No renov...

Jason G. Roofstock Case Study
15 April 2023 | 218 replies

My girlfriend and I have been saving money for a down payment on our first rental property and had initially been looking at single family properties and multifamily properties in upstate New York. In May 2017 I came ...

K S. My 100k house vs 100k in the S&P 500 (16 years later)
10 December 2023 | 289 replies

A turnkey home for 100k renting for 1k (1% rule) would net you worse than the stock market 16 years later. I went back through my 1099s and calculated my return and estimated closing costs, federal taxes, capital gain...