Greg Moore
Please join me in roasting crappy Appraisers!
The role of the Appraiser is an odd one: Way too much art (opinions) and way too little science (data-analytics), with way, way, way too little accountability. While the world embraces tech tools to automate workflow...
Brandon Turner
Making Money on Deals that Most Investors Throw In the Trash
Hey folks,
Today on the BiggerPockets Podcast we are excited to bring you an interview with @Grant Kemp and he shares his strategy for buying over a dozen homes a month ... most of which require little-to-n...
Alexander Parunin
Avoiding city (building) inspectors and code enforcement
We just recently started house renovation and got red tagged by the city inspector. I guess he saw dumpster while driving around or maybe neighbors complained. So we learned never leave dumpster in city limits.
Could...
Drew Y.
Its beginning to feel a lot like 2005 everywhere I look
So I have been watching the interest rates as they have begun to rise and the notional value of risk free treasuries and ten year treasury bonds are approaching 3% . Given that the CAP rates in the San Francisco bay a...
Nat C.
"We bought 100 properties without using any of our own money"
This statement is something I keep seeing again and again on the Bigger Pockets blogs;people saying they flipped 100 properties using someone else's money. They proclaim they had one of their investors pay for the pur...
Jay Marks
New Landlord Wishing To Evict Existing Tenant....Help me out
Ok this sounds horrible but please read it all. I just bought my son and his wife a condo here in miami. My son is a trader, he's 27 years old and he was renting a unit for $6,500/month a big waste of money imo. He...
Gregory Schwartz
What did I just do! Full-time investor during the Coronavirus!
Did I pick the best time or the worst time to jump in full time as a real estate investor?
December 2019 - I very confidently left my full-time job as an active USMC officer making over 100k a year.
January 2020 - ...
Yonah Weiss
I'm a Real Estate Investor, but my Degree is in...
Do you have a college degree? If so, in what field?
Has that helped you in your real estate investing? Or do you think you could have done with out it?
I am a firm believer that our path in life has lead us where we...
Walt Payne
BP has many great blog posts, BUT ....
A recent blog post really, really struck me as bad advice. http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2014/10/08...This is not the way we want investors to be representing us, and definitely not the kind of advice that t...
Bradley Shuhart
How much negative cash flow is too much
I have an opportunity to assume a loan at 2.5% in a HCOL SoCal community. Even at that rate I will still be losing about $800-$1000 per month with a renter due to HOA & Mello Roos. I'm ok with a negative cash fl...