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After having read a lot of bad and some good advice on social media marketing; I am curious as to how much an average investor spends on advertising on social media and the ROI? If you can list the sites you have mark...
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BiggerPockets Publishing just released Anson Young's new book Finding & Funding Great Deals: The Hands-on Guide to Acquiring Real Estate in Any Market . And just like our last book, it instantly sold out on Amazo...
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Hello! So I finally finished our property wide portfolio analysis. Here's an example of the 2022 KPIs I'm measuring for a few of the properties in the portfolio. A couple important notes on calculations and definition...
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During supply-constrained cycles like the one we’re in currently, being good at sourcing can be one of the most value-accretive, yet challenging, aspects of real estate investing. Not only must investors move quickly ...
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Hello Bigger Pockets, I am a 27 year old Airline Pilot living in Pittsburgh, PA. I purchased my first property in April of 2024. It is a triplex and I have been living in the bottom unit. Now that the property has bee...
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Holy crap! Marketing is expensive! I went to listsource.com to build my list and had 10,000 people or so on it. I filtered the duplicates and only had names where the mailing and property addresses were whole. Further...
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In my location the houses are relatively expensive compared to the rental rates. A really good deal might hit the 1% rule and 2% seems out of the question. There are still plenty of people that buy and rent property ...
I wanted to start a discussion to understand why a) housing is no longer affordable & b) why so many rental/apt properties are popping up nationwide. My reasoning behind my inquiry:From recent reports of price gou...
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Hi BP!Just wanted to share a recent success story of my girlfriend in negotiating. I recently read Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss on the recommendation of a member. Instantly top 10 book for me as far as pri...
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I've always heard and believed that you should only buy on actuals. But I've been hearing more and more of the experts buying at a low cap rate(5-5.5 and even lower)Therefore I'm assuming they're buying on what the pr...