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Gayla Kemp Investors, do you own your personal home or rent?
9 January 2015 | 58 replies

I have been listening to podcasts and youtubes and I keep hearing people say that investors should not own their own home, they should rent.  Can someone please explain the logic behind this.  I have 55% equity in my ...

Kyle Grimm Where do you shop? HOME DEPOT vs MENARDS vs LOWES - Benefits?
4 February 2016 | 45 replies

Hi everyone I was just looking into signing up for the Home Depot credit card yesterday (which I found doesn't have that great of benefits) and I started wondering.. out of the three biggest box stores (Home Depot, Me...

Michael L. Opening the Kimono: My Out-of-State REI Experience
8 February 2019 | 282 replies

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...

Kelly Claiborne What is stopping you from buying your first investment property?
6 January 2022 | 348 replies

I want to know what your barriers are. What's stopping you from buying an investment property? -Time-Money-Knowledge-Coach/Mentor-Fear

Ryan Evans I'm taking a field trip to Cleveland!
18 September 2017 | 87 replies

A lot of eyes are on the midwest these days so I thought I’d put an offer out there for all the BP folks around the country who have their eye on Cleveland, Ohio.I’ve personally placed a major bet on Cleveland as an u...

Daniel Brown Let's discuss the BRRRR process
23 May 2019 | 110 replies

Good morning BP! I wanna talk BRRRR. I understand the basic premise of what brrrr is and how powerful of a strategy it is to use in real estate. I also realize that over paying for a property or over estimating the AR...

Remington Lyman Contract left back doors open and I am out $2,000 in appliances
31 January 2020 | 119 replies

A contractor put in barn doors in my out-of-state client’s duplex that I am managing in Columbus, Ohio near The Ohio State University.I guess they left the back doors opened because when I went to do a tour today they...

Yongming Huang Why are real estate agent commissions so high in the US?
10 July 2024 | 87 replies

I have watched several discussions, including David Greene's video, around the recent lawsuit against NAR and RE brokerages. Learned a lot but there is one thing I just don't understand. If we look at the numbers, the...

Hassan Omar For Jan, Feb and March I'm going to buy some houses; here's how..
3 August 2009 | 129 replies

Hey folks, happy new year.

The other day I was asked to show a friend all the steps required to find and buy a fixer upper house here in the Atlanta market. Not a hard task, but doing it the right way is. That said ...

Rod Desinord 90% of you won't do anything!!!! But why?
16 January 2017 | 82 replies

I always hear this figure and wonder to myself how come? Is it because people are scared or is it because the people who are trying to get into investing have a hard time figuring out what information is correct and w...