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Hello! I am a novice investor living in the Austin area. My goal is to purchase my first rental property this year, although likely not in Austin. I've done the bulk of my real estate research with a friend, who has a...
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Hello, I'm new to BP and real estate investing. I want to purchase rental properties and generate positive cashflow. I'm Looking for strategies and expertise here who could guide me in the right direction.
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Wanted to share my story with others. Someone from Joe's team contacted me via BP last Dec-2015 to do an interview. Initially, I was thinking "really?", "me", "why". Yes, overthinking this for a few minutes until I ju...
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Hey guys!! Im looking to become a real estate agent in California. Incredibly excited to start taking these steps into real estate my main goal is to become an investor and I really want to fully embrace myself into t...
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Hi everyone. I was wondering if anyone here has any experience utilizing their primary residence for STR/AirBNB while away on vacations or long weekends? If so, how was your experience with it? We tend take weekend ...
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Hello Everyone,
My name is Anthony. I am 24 years old and I am looking to start investing in real estate and have started reading books to begin my journey. The book I started with is "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" By Robert...
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I am almost done reading Pitch Anything by Oren Klaff. This has been such an insightful book for me in terms of not only REI but just life and relationships in general....I've had my favorite books along the way besi...
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This has been talked about a couple times in different posts but I wanted to see if we can get some more answers from different people. BESIDES Airbnb and VRBO, what are some booking platforms you've liked and/or had ...
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Hello. My name is Daniel . I've been living in Greater Miami for most of my life. I've been on and off searching for good property deals which have a fallen through.I have no formal training in real estate investment....
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What’re some of the distressed note training program you’ve been part of and which one you would recommend?