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Hello, and thank you in advance for reading this! I am a dentist, looking to get into self-storage as an owner/operator. I own two dental offices, so I have business experience, but no self storage experience. My g...
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Quick question BP Family! I've done a couple wholesale deals in the past but they were insane to say the least. Mind you I am self taught so that definitely didn't give me an advantage. I found it rather tricky trying...
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I wanted to get some clarity on the legality of wholesaling in Illinois. Does obtaining a real estate agent license enough to legally wholesale, or do I need to obtain a brokers license? I plan on getting licensed and...
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This is actually pretty funny, because I posted a forum and spoke of how hectic my schedule already is.For those of you who didn't see that, I'm 23 years old. I'm a contractor for a large aviation company and make pre...
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Hey y'all. I'm Kurt and boy do I understand the phrase "you don't know what you don't know" because, well, I know so vanishingly little about real estate investing that pretty much everything is a recursive "don't kn...
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What do you think about sending gift cards for the holidays to tenants?Last Christmas (2018) my buddy and I sent out dinner gift cards to the tenants. I also did this for my tenants for Christmas in (2019). The idea i...
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BP,I just wanted to share a success story that I have been blessed with having. I was in the military and stationed in Lemoore, CA. Lemoore is a town of 25k people and they are expanding the base and adding about 5k b...
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The first record I can find in my digitital footprint about BP was an email my wife sent to me with a blog post on here about short sales in 2009. I think I may have come across the site here and there occasionally, ...
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Ok I got three different sellers looking to sell their properties all three are vacant. Two of the properties ARV's are around 200 to 210 (thousand ) and the third is about 75 to 80 (thousand). And all three are ask...
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My wife and I were transferring (Navy) from San Diego, California to the Florida Panhandle (Panama City Beach). At the time we had our 5 year old daughter with a goal of adding one more child to the fam-bam while on s...