Cameron Skinner
Wealth is never attained when sought after directly
Henry Ford said "Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service." When I first started in real estate all my goals were only financial. A...
Bryan Hancock
How Large Of A "Bet" (Investment) Are You Willing To Make?
This topic comes up frequently on BP and it is something I am currently wrestling with for some new projects I have found. What percentage of your net worth are you willing to risk on any given type or set of project...
Jackie Patterson
What do you want to do in retirement?
What do you want to do in retirement? This isn't about when you retire, or what you need to retire, but what you want to do. Once you decide what you want to do, then goals can be set to get you there.
We live in...
Henry Clark
Self Storage- COC, Cap rate, Cash Flow evaluation; which is best?
Was on another post and the question was asked, "What is a good COC for B and C self storage." The following discussion relates just to drive up B/C self storage locations. More than 80% of these are owned by Mom/Po...
Annie Balagot
Tenant Proofing rental
Hi,we just purchased a SFH in Austin that is only a few years old, however, has builder grade brown carpet that is generally OK once cleaned but thinking I want to replace all the carpet with good quality laminate now...
Kevin Theis
Driven Newbie in San Antonio, TX
Hello all, glad to have joined the wonderful world of BiggerPockets! I've already found it incredibly resourceful so first off thank you to everyone that puts in their hard work and effort into sharing their knowledge...
Nkiruka Okeke
How do you get up to speed quickly
A lot of topics have been discussed before, so many problems have been solved and I'm trying to read as much as possible to really get up to speed. There is years and years of knowledge and experience on the blogs, i...
Sam Sagor
Free knowledge
It came up a while ago that there are free college classes available from places like Stanford and MIT. There are new ones coming out now in video format which until now had been a short coming with MIT (text and pdfs...
Scott Lepore
building mid grade apartment complex
My mechanic is interested in scraping his shop and building an apartment complex. It is an 18,000 sf lot and already has sewer, water, gas, electric. Lets just assume for the case of this discussion that I know what...
Paul Chae
Just wanted to share my experience as a buy and hold investor
Hey everyone,I wanted to share what I have experienced in the real estate in the last 2 to 3 years, as someone who probably just got out of the beginner's phase in his investing career(or is still at it). So far I hav...