We’ve offered them incentives, we’re honouring their preferred showing times (which is very restrictive) and doing everything we can to make this easier on them. They have a sick child so we offered them half month’s ...

One of the most common topics discussed on bigger pockets and other real estate forums is the decision between a property that cash flows and one that has the potential to appreciate. To take this further, I recently ...

Today, in Sept 2018 the Stock Market is at 28,000. An all time high. The average wage is $26 per hour. It takes 1,077 work hours to “buy the market”. That is, if you buy one share each of the stocks of the Dow, the co...

Now is the time to BUY!Here is what is occurring in virtually all "hot" real estate markets nationally:"Hot" = strong population and job growth markets and therefore increasing price trend line This applies to San Jos...

California recently signed a mandate requiring most new homes in the state to include solar panels after 2020. California is the first state to do so, but it likely won't be the last, with New Jersey and Minnesota pur...

Hi,Listening to some of the podcasts and reading the blog, I keep feeling this inner red flag that keeps popping up in me.  I get the feeling that a lot of folks are advocating being over leveraged and taking on an un...

On some other threads, there seems to be an underlying debate or difference in philosophy around buy-and-hold investment strategy:  In one camp, the goal is to invest in high appreciation areas, even though they are h...

We had a conversation with a guy today and it went something like this:"Hey I saw you hauling some lumber the other day. Whatcha building?""We bought a rental house and I was fixing a safety hazard." (Concrete step at...

I’m curious to see who exactly visits bigger pockets. Is it mostly newbie/wanna-be investors or more seasoned/experienced investors?

If you are investing, are you in state or out of state?

I’ll start by answering m...