One of the things I always try to be conscientious to is herd mentality. Recognition of herd mentality and the pure luck of a well timed divorce kept me from investing in real estate in 2007 and waiting until 2008 wh...

I am just starting to acquire rental property and curious what others consider the minimum cash flow requirements for deal analysis. Per month and per unit, after expenses and debt service.  Also, self manage or pay p...

I live up in the Bay Area, have a nice job and a wonderful house, but still with a wife and two young kids, feels like you can't get ahead here because its so expensive.  Also hard to do any real estate investing when...

I haven't seen anything in the forums less than a year old about this, but here on phoenix I hear a commercial for Offerpad/Opendoor perhaps 4-5 times a day. Always kinda figured they must lowball quick cash offers an...

For us real estate investors this is a good time to have rental properties while we watch others portfolios crash with the stock market.Other than a moderately safe mutual fund I contribute to monthly and my 401k, I a...

Back in November (2014) I closed on my first REI property.  A 'turnkey' duplex in Chicago.  I went with a well-known turnkey provider and posted initial updates in this thread:http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/92/to...

Hi All! My husband and I have recently gotten our LLC approved by Pennsylvania and are on the look out for our first fix and flip.  I have a question about hard money. We are looking at multiple hard money lenders to ...

After selling rental properties to investors for 20 years, the common denominator why people hate rentals is because they don't like managing the rentals. I always tell investors to spend their time educating, improvi...

ifunding seems to be the first crowdfunding portal to have an investment (actually 5 investments) not go according to plan.  They have 5 fix and flip deals in Milwaukee with the Orange group that were suppose to yield...

So I have been watching a bunch of videos and reading things on wholesaling after just finding out about it the other day.  From my understanding it requires a lot of work and can be harder than youtubers make it soun...