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Hey everyone - finally decided to join up after listening to a fair amount of podcasts on my travels. Looking to get involved in building a small residential portfolio to eventually combine in an aggregate sale for on...
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In the book "Landlording on Autopilot" Mike Butler makes the case for houses being better investments than apartments for the following reasons:
- Houses can be bought at wholesale & sold at retail. Apartments ar...
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Hello my name is Nicholas Edwards, and I am a newbie to real estate investing. I currently work as a Chemist creating coatings for industrial equipment. I am new to real estate so I am starting with learning the acron...
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My name is Brandon Ortiz, and I’m a real estate agent here in the Bay Area. I’ve owned a home in Gilroy, CA, for 12 years, and it has built up a significant amount of equity. I’m now looking to invest that equity to c...
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Hey BP Houston. New member from Pearland here. I've been lurking for a while and recently signed up. I'm interested in buy and hold investments and the BRRRR strategy. I've been analyzing properties using the BP t...
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I own my home after paying the mortgage off in 7 years. I have $200k+ in equity. I am thinking about trying to use it as leverage to buy a rental. I am a product of Dave Ramsey so the idea of levering what I’ve just ...
After a clean slate restart Im back. Looking to build generational wealth and network with like minded people. I have learned so much since finding the bigger pockets pod cast and I am so thankful for the extensive ed...
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Hi everyone,
I really should know the answer to this. The obvious answer is to sue when someone has committed fraud. Unfortunately, that is an expensive time-consuming process. And when the company you're suing has ...
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I'm totally new to Real Estate Investing. But after reading so many times that $100 a month profit is the goal, I'm left wondering how can this be good? By my estimation I'd need 40-50 houses to make a decent living...
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I love the BP community and I'm probably going to get speared for this post, but I'm tired of the drivel spewed on this website by really intelligent people in regards to various investment vehicles, but usually aimed...