[GAH! just typed a whole long post to have the internet fail and lose it!]
Hello Bigger Pockets!
My wife and I are new investors with identified deal flow, a selected strategy, and have done a ton of research. We ar...

In large markets what is anyone doing to compete with the guys that have a 20K per month marketing budget. Here in the Dallas Fort Worth area there are multiple Homevestor operations that spend this much or more. What...

I would love to hear from anyone who has owned income property near a college or university for at least 3-5 years and has experience renting to college students. Does the annual turnover kill your cash flow? Certainl...

I recently read an article in a business journal regarding investing in real estate through crowdfunding.  Has anyone on this forum had experience dealing with Fundrise, RealCrowd or Crowdstreet?  Anyone care to discu...

This will be my first flip and I have questions on ROI. 
As background, it's a 1400 sq ft ranch in a very desirable area where homes typically fetch $500/ft+ after rehab or new build. Just to use round numbers, I'm b...

I remember reading this article when longtime pillar of the BP community, Brandon Hall wrote it a few years ago. I'll let the article speak for itself, but if I were to distill it down to a sentence: When it comes to ...

I have scoured the BP blog and internet and have not been able to find a clear answer to a few questions I have regarding Debt to Income ratio, so what better place to ask than here! So here it goes!1) I have had a re...

Bigger Pockets Community,
Before the COVID-19 crisis, my investing partner and I were analyzing deals for neighborhood strip centers in our home region.  What a difference a month (or three) makes.  Over the past sev...

Has anyone dealt with Shivers Lending?

Zillow rolled out a "test" in 2 markets recently in Las Vegas and Orlando. Simply put they give sellers the option to review up to 15 instant offers from investors they have lined up. A CMA is also provided from a l...