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Joshua Dorkin Diary of a New Construction Project
4 April 2023 | 527 replies

Back in March 2013, BiggerPockets and J Scott collaborated to release two books -- The Book on Flipping Houses and The Book on Estimating Rehab Costs (check them out here if you haven't already). As part of the book ...

Account Closed How Investing in the Stock Market Saps Your Wealth
13 January 2021 | 243 replies

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...

Matthew Mucker Where does the 50% rule come from?
1 May 2021 | 300 replies

I know the "50% rule" is bandied about as gospel here in the forums, but haven't seen any actual, hard data that says that operating expenses tend to be ~50% of gross rent income. I'd like to verify this number is, in...

Shane Pearlman The END of the Suburbs?
11 June 2017 | 98 replies

With an eye to the future, should we really be buying in remote suburbs, or is that like investing in VHS rental shop in a digital age? I’m seeing what looks like a massive urbanization trend.I am a buy and holder. Ot...

Craig Moore Anyone out there achieve $10K/mo passive income after tax?
27 June 2018 | 92 replies

Hi BP,I know this may seem like an odd question and one I don't expect many people to answer for privacy concerns and not wanting people knowing your personal finances. I would like to know if there are any people out...

Alexander Knox Success in Rental Arbitrage
3 October 2023 | 37 replies

Hi all,
I am curious about how people are successfully operating rental arbitrage businesses. I own multiple rentals in the south/mid west and recently I was approached by an aspiring arbitrager to lease out one of m...

Mike H. Is right now one of the worst times to be a real estate investor?
27 September 2024 | 66 replies

I haven't been doing this as long as some of the big time investors here.  But I've had a pretty interesting run over the last 20 years.  And I'm just wondering if anybody else is seeing the same thing.  I started in ...

Trevor Aydelott Is it me or does most of these Realtors suck at their job
2 June 2020 | 181 replies

I've been hardcore looking for buy and hold properties and fix and flip properties all over the country. 
You're talking Colorado, Ohio, Texas, everywhere. 
And I talk to these realtors and they are like I'm the per...

Andy Mirza Changes to Definition of Accredited Investors
9 September 2019 | 59 replies

There's hope that the definition of accredited investors will change in the near future. The House overwhelmingly passed JOBS Act 3.0 on a bipartisan basis by 400+ votes. With this amount of support, the Senate will s...

Stevie Delacruz Investing too young?
1 September 2018 | 112 replies

Hey everyone! I’ve recently been stumped on this specific concept and hoping to get a few pointers from some successors. I absolutely love the idea of buy and hold real estate investment properties but I am a 19 year ...