For you "private lenders" what mistakes have you made? I'm wondering if private lenders are 1. willing to disclose mistakes and 2. what they did to correct it, if they did at all.

I just read about private lending, t...

Has anyone borrowed from their life insurance policy or used it as collateral to invest? I've had a few people that said this is a great strategy and to make sure I have the policy setup correctly. Working on getting ...

Disclaimer, not edited. May be riddled with typos. After all of the other books that i’ve read, this is a great way to cap my months of reading and makes me feel like I have enough “research” to move forward. Enjoy. L...

If targeting the foreclosure, absentee owners, inheritance, divorce, or probate lists truly gets you motivated sellers, why then does it take you 3000+ mailers, texts, or cold calls to finally snag ONE lousy deal! You...

One of my goals over the past 6 years has been to produce a real estate investing conference unlike any we've seen before. I believe that BiggerPockets is in a unique position to create a conference that changes the ...

One funny thing about people is that while we are almost always well intentioned, we seem to do a lot of things that are just plain crazy. I, for example, still prefer to eat my oranges by dissecting each into their i...

Looking to make my first offer on a multi. This is an 8 unit, C-D class, concrete block in Florida. Half the tenants are section 8. Five tenants have been there for 10 or more years. One tenant has been there for 23. ...

I have a question for all of you BPersI am an active buy and hold investor and some months I ask myself why am I doing this again?I believe I do this because I do not have a clearly defined WHY to look to during those...

I am new to investing and after a few deals that had multiple other offers that I didn't win out; I did execute a purchase agreement last weekend but doing more analysis on the property and potential rates being 7.5%,...

Hi guys, I'm a new investor trying to find the  and am trying to find the right turnkey company to work  with. I think the most important thing about finding the right turnkey company is finding a great property manag...