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Ember Meadows Finding motivated sellers
13 February 2012 | 23 replies

Hey guys, just wanted to get your feedback on how you find motivated sellers? I have gotten some pretty good leads from bandit signs. I have also sent yellow letters to an absentee home owners list. I did this rece...

Bryan H. Why do contractors only send the estimate 10%-25% of the time?
27 July 2021 | 26 replies

BP Community,I live in the Denver Metro city of Centennial, Colorado.  It boggles my mind how many contractors come to do a site walkthrough, promise to provide an estimate within a few business days, and never send i...

Samantha M. Prepared for the 2013 Recession?
2 August 2012 | 54 replies

Many media outlets, respected investors and the like are reporting 2013 will be yet another recession. Possibly more severe than the one in 2008 due to factors such as increased national debt, printing money, manipula...

Melanie Stephens Biggest Mistakes/Lessons Learned: Short-Term Rentals
8 December 2021 | 123 replies

Hey everyone!
My name is Melanie Stephens and I write the “Biggest Mistakes/Lessons Learned” column for BiggerPockets Wealth Magazine.
I am looking for BP Member stories for an upcoming column on Biggest Mistakes ma...

J. Martin Being frugal paid off in RE: $1k car, $1MM in RE, $140K/yr gross rents, and free couches..
6 January 2016 | 82 replies

I was looking for advice on starting out in being a successful real estate investor (with no capital) years back and ran across a few people who gave some of the best advice I have ever received for that scenario: BE ...

Thom H. 401k vs Rental Property...should he cash in the 401k???
4 June 2017 | 30 replies

A friend at my "day job" asked me a question this week regarding cashing in his 401k to fund purchasing more rental properties, when he learned that I was in the rental property business. He's a mid-forties corporate...

Account Closed Advice - What would you do?
3 September 2018 | 22 replies

Hello everyone,My name is Brian and I need advice. I've been playing tennis in my head about what I should do for the past few months and now I'm even more confused than when I started to think about everything. I wou...

Jim Majoros Is it Legal to get a seller to hold the Mortgage in Pennsylvania?
15 July 2012 | 23 replies

I am being told by an attorney that because of the Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 I cannot get a seller to hold the paper. I do not understand because I hear of people doing this.