Excerpt from a post I made on the stock investing forum "The Motley Fool." The audience is stock investors who are equally passionate and successful in stocks as the BP community is in REI. Many of them think going al...

One of the most common questions newbie real estate investors ask is:"I am a newbie and I want to raise private money to buy deals. How can I do it?"I will answer it using my personal experience. I started investing i...

Hi all! 
My wife and I are getting ready to move from Rhode Island to Cleveland, Ohio in the coming months. We met while we were getting our teaching degrees, but nowadays she's at home with our two feisty (OH SO FE...

I have been working on setting up a modest vacation rental in the Portland metro area. In the past, friends of mine were raving about VRBO, telling me it really does work- and they had a reasonable fee structure. But ...

MY FIRST BP POST! YAY!I have read 100 books, read forums, watched podcasts, analyzed deals, talked to my lender, paid off all my debt and I have $50k to play with. I can't use that $50k to buy multiple properties in D...

I came across a new idea in the real estate space that’s worth discussing. It’s not about buying whole properties or even shares in a REIT, but instead purchasing rights to the income a property generates.
Here’s how...

Hello, I'm very new to Bigger Pockets, but I've had this forum bookmarked forever until I really needed it.I sold one of my companies some time ago and now have a regular stream of ~1 million per month to invest. So f...