Hi there,Asking such a big question: I'm trying to get my first deal done, and still trying to narrow down which city/area I should be looking at.I'm a first time investor, I live in San Jose, CA, but I'm inclined to ...

Hey everyone! I am doing research for a house hacking project and need some stories of fellow house hackers. Could you please reply to this thread with your house hacking story?Please include your location, strategy (...

Ok so this is probably not going to be an easy read, and i primarily write this down to make sense off my own thoughts, but i thought why not let a few of the great BP minds participate and maybe together find a satis...

I brought a paint sample to home depot to match and purchased a sample. I only needed enough to cover a few sq feet.  When I went to use the paint it didnt match. I took it back to the store for a refund and they refu...

I was just listening to Elizabeth Colegrove on podcast 103.  She is obviously a very bright investor who is currently doing what I call the W.E.B. Griffin RE investing strategy.  Basically, buying a house at every dut...

We are moving from Long Beach, CA to Chandler, AZ.  We are trying to decide what to do with our current house.  I asked a friend and he posed an interesting question.  Imagine you had $350k (which is the cash our equi...

Will covid kill cash?
Digital payments have been growing by leaps and bounds but will this health crisis be the final straw?
I have seen a lot of local businesses request that you pay digitally or in some cases no l...

A BP friendship with @Tom Yung this past summer led to a JV to rehab an Atlanta property Mr. Yung had picked up in a Dekalb County tax foreclosure. The house is located in east Atlanta in the Edgewood neighborhood an...

Maybe I'm just going through a little grumpy fit and being melodramatic, but are any other Oregon landlords, particularly Portland area so far, getting to their breaking point yet of how far you can be pushed by polit...