Like many other real estate investor, I seek to buy and hold real estate, and enjoy the cash flow and any possible appreciation.   However, since my target properties are lower end properties that often requires rehab...

@Ali Boone , @Charles McNelly, and others have talked about lifestyle design, and how it fits into their real estate investing - or should I say, how their real estate investing fits into their lifestyle design. I've ...

Good morning BP! First and foremost I would like to say that I'm grateful for this site and forums. My wife and I have recently become interested in investing in real estate and have been listening to pod-casts for mo...

Hey Guys!I haven't been as active on the forums near as much as I would have like to have been these past few months. Mostly because I've been scouring the MLS looking for deals or checking on our current rehab houses...

I hear a lot about newbies wanting to be mentored and I myself stumbled across an investor who is interested in mentoring me, but my question is why?  Besides the goodness of their hearts, why do investors (who must b...

I do not know if I am just getting older (Im gen x) and more jaded or if it is a red flag, but I hate it when I am looking to hire someone or have hired and they in a convo about said work tell me that they are "helpi...

     How can an investor leverage his/her time in creating a high cash flow passive Investment that can potentailly yield 30% + returns ?
.   After investing in several real estate courses, seminars  & books (air...

So I was wondering how appreciation investors satisfy the debt coverage ratio?  I keep seeing that banks require a 1.2-1.3 ratio.  I know that a lot of appreciation plays barely break even on cashflow or are sometimes...

Hi everyone!  I'm new here to the Bigger Pockets forum.  (In fact, this is my first post!)  I'm really interested to see what expert advice I can obtain from the many real estate investors here.I have been fortunate i...

I just enrolled in my companie's 403B tax deferered retirement "match" program. I don't plan to wait that long to retire. I am serious about using real estate as a tool to escape the life of being a paid slave. I just...