I am thinking that providing section 8 housing may be a more affordable and recession proof way to get started in real estate for rental income. There is more inventory for single family homes than multi and I've done...

I’m looking for some help in evaluating a deal that I looked at this last weekend in my home town of Richland, WA. After running the numbers, I don’t think this would be a good deal at the current price, but I want to...

Hi folks - long time reader here.My wife and I are scoping out a SF property in Somerville. It has the bones and sq ft to be converted into a multifamily though we have a limited understanding of the MF conversion pro...

Hi there, college student here projected to graduate in two years with an engineering degree to fund my investments. I am starting out early scoping out the scene trying to decide where I want to start my investing ca...

Hey!My husband and I would love to use some retirement money to invest in real estate. We have looked into buying directly from the retirement fund (employer refuses to roll it into a self directed IRA) as well as vol...

Hi BP Calgary Community,
I live in Calgary and am looking getting into property investment. I am looking to invest about $100,000 on a down payment for a long term rental, but running the numbers on a few different p...

(Disclaimer: I totally took the formatting of this post from another post by Anton Ivanov that I liked a year back!)
A Little Backstory
I am currently 30, married, no kids, living in Gilbert, AZ and working as a fin...

I have that typical one property (fourplex) that gives me a monthly headache when it comes time to collect.  I'll receive all kinds of stories on why they don't have the full rent, can I pay you rest in two weeks, etc...

We have a contract on our first deal as of today (see http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/88/topics/1548... for details).Our original plan was to rent this out as a SFR.  But over the last 24 hours, I started wonderin...

Greetings BPI have been looking at AIRBNB.  Has anyone been able to scale an AIRBNB business?  There has been a lot of chatter on BP about it.  I am interested in hearing from anyone whose is doing it in scale and mak...