Hi everyone. My wife and I are looking to get into real estate investing. My wife just became a licensed agent this month, but doesn’t want to spend the rest of her life earning commissions and I have a 9-5 engineerin...
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Hello, BiggerPockets Community!
I’m excited to be here and connect with fellow investors! Originally from Africa, I’ve embraced new opportunities to build a better future, and real estate is at the core of my financ...
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I'm a little nervous to introduce myself to this community but here goes
hi there, my name is Jose Aguilar I'm 25 years old and live in Whittier CA 90604, I love to eat, work out and read books, and i now have an i...
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Hello BP Community, I'm new to 'actively' investing in real estate and looking to soak up as much as I can from the incredible knowledge base of the BP community. I stumbled into real estate investing out of college ...
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And yes I'm aware of the 10-31 exchange, It's part of my plan. I've been reading and collecting guides and due diligence worksheets on apartment complex purchases. The biggest reason I'm considering doing it is that I...
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Just an honest question.Besides being able to "retire early" and maybe do a couple international trips a year, why do you want to acquire a massive amount of wealth? I used to fall into this category. But then I switc...
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I was reading a book from a popular commercial real estate investor this evening and he made the bold claim that real estate is a "get rich slow" business. One of the most successful investors I know in Austin uses t...
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I hear Dave Greene on the BP podcast always talking about high appreciation markets and sort of put down midwest and other high cash flow markets and I think this is actually detrimental advice for people looking to g...
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Very thankful to a good friend of mine that's a general contractor and real estate investor. Soon as I told him I was interested in real estate investing he directed me to Bigger Pockets. I'm looking forward to buildi...
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Building wealth and becoming rich is almost everyone's dream. There are many avenues to building wealth and growing a portfolio of assets. One of the avenues to amassing wealth is owning rental properties. Rental p...