If you had to guess, what is the success rate in real estate investing? Success being defined by someone being able to live above average lifestyle strictly based upon their earnings in real estate.I bet its below 5%...
A turnkey home for 100k renting for 1k (1% rule) would net you worse than the stock market 16 years later. I went back through my 1099s and calculated my return and estimated closing costs, federal taxes, capital gain...
Hi, I'm 23 yrs old and have been trying to get started in real estate investing. But no luck. I know this wasn't going to be easy but it almost feels impossible. I finally tried to get pre qualified for a loan of abou...
How many people are financially free on here? For those of you who are, do you still work or are you "retired" and living off the cash flow? If you are financially free, which method did you use to acquire it? (ie buy...
Im sure many of us have read all the warnings and reviews of buying low price properties, and the problems typically associated with them, but all that considered, it is what first attracts a lot of people , indeed th...
That Atlanta market peaked on July 2007 and bottomed in March of 2012. We have since made a complete "V" shaped recovery since March 2012. At this significant bottom, and retail real estate were trading at 1996 pri...
My partner and I went out to lunch with one of our agents who sold us 2 buildings last year. He asked how much do we cash-flow on the buildings? We looked at each other and said we didn't know. You've gotta be kiddi...
Over the years I’ve seen many questions here on BiggerPockets forum related to various aspects of using self-directed Solo 401k real estate investing. But the challenge is that those questions are spread out across pr...
I'm sure a lot of you have seen BP member Bob Stevens all over the forums telling people all about his 15% net cap Cleveland rental properties and the importance of his team.
If you do a little digging you see that t...
I see men constantly posting! Where are the women? That are investors and agents?