Joshua Christensen
Is Mindset all that important in REI?
A few years ago, I bought the largest project I'd ever taken on. It was a fantastic 100+ year old Victorian home in a Historic district of Albuquerque. I was so excited to take this on. The city had condemned the p...
Peter Schuyler
Buying house for Child to help with In State Tuition Costs
My REI lawyer on BP said this might work, I wanted to get some feedback.My daughter will be attending a University in a different state next fallWe buy a small house for her this year, and put the title in her name in...
Matt Hangsleben
401K: Continue Contributions or Stop?
I recently purchased my first rental property with no money down. I did so by necessity as I am cash broke! However, I do put a substantial amount of money into my 401K account every pay check. I have always been r...
Wayde C Hall
Foodstamps effecting ability to invest in rental property
Hello everyone,
I'm new to investing in rental properties and have been listening to the BP podcast for weeks now and have since read several books but I have not seen anything addressing my question of if I have f...
Jacob Sharp
House hacking
My co-worker has almost completely convinced me that the following strategy is the holy grail of building a real estate portfolio over time. My plan is this, buy another house that has good rental potential and move ...
Chris Bounds
Probate Marketing
Probate investors...Do you send DM to probate leads where the applicant (executor) address is the same as the deceased address? Presumably 99% of the time it will be a surviving spouse. I'm assuming that they will b...
Thomas McNally
Time to dive into full-time REI
This week it was announced that my job site will be permanently closing its doors within the next couple years. My goal has been to go full time into real estate and I have been working as much OT as possible to build...
Jacoby Atako
Starting with the renter first?
Has anyone ever bought a home because they had a renter in mind they wanted to work with? Especially in this market houses are overpriced, as we all know. But if you know of a renter with good history, was in their ...
Bruce Crawford
Pros and Cons of buying back in the US
Although I think I have already decided on my actions, I wanted to reach out and get some comments from other BPers. I have been living in Japan for 11 years and recently married. I do not see myself returning to the ...
Jeff Marzo
New member from Sunny San Diego, Ca! Don't be jealous;P
Hello everybody. I am new to this forum and grateful that I found BP. I was born in the Philippines and lived in San Diego since I was 4 years old and now I am 29. I just got out of the Navy after serving 10 1/2 years...