When you're hiring a contractor, how do you handle payment. Will they want payment before? If so, it doesn't make much sense to pay until you're sure the work is complete, right?

It makes sense to me to pay half be...

I am new to Bigger Pockets but I have had quite a bit of experience in 4 1/2 years. Dropped out of college at 20 and bought one unit with 20% down in 2010. After that it was a snowball effect and I dove in head first....

When you buy a multi family building for first time or when your decide to grow your portfolio with second, third and so on multi family building. How do you do property management? Do you do yourself, and if you do h...

I attended a high income seminar today. The sad part was that the seminar title was Strategic Defaults! The speaker was very high powered attorney in swfl that has been doing these for a couple years. The stats came f...

Here is a question that I have for all the expert landlords out there.

My folks own roughly 50 rental units, in a small town of about 14,000 people. There is still a note on the rentals that has 4 years left, monthl...

So today I picked up rent plus some past due rent from last month and a late fee. When I told the tenant last month that he was going to be charged a late fee, he looked at me like he couldn't believe I was being so u...

Hi All,I am a first time real estate investor approved to buy a property that is about $1MM. I am from West Los Angeles, CA, which is a market where cash flow is hard to come by. I have decided I may need to invest ou...

Second year in real estate. My first year I been reading, learning, and even paid for a course on wholesaling but a couple months into my second year I am having trouble getting contact with sellers I have softwares I...

I’m in year 1—I have been eyeballing RE for years though. I have recently been reading a RE book every 7-10 days and man, have you ever been like “THIS IS A LOT OF INFO!!”I want to do this, and I do believe RE can and...

A total real estate investing newbie here. I don't even know if the term "real estate investor" is a misnomer for me! I'm taking really small steps in going into this, but from what I have read, this is the path t...