I am new here, and along with the Bigger Pockets guides, I recently read Brandon Turner's "7 Years to 7 Figures."  That piece lays out 3 fundamental principles: get a good deal when you buy (20% discount), appreciate ...

Hello everyone,Im just starting to get my feet wet in real estate investing so I'm going to go ahead and apologize for all of the dumb questions I'll be asking haha.Now that that's out of the way, my name is Matt. I'v...

I recently wrote an article on 3 Web Sites that really transformed our real estate investing business from 2010 to now. At a time when we were working hard to improve every facet of our company, we also began to use ...

 Looking for some insight on a few things before starting construction on my first rental property! Area is not a high end area by any means, all units don’t have laundry as well as no centralized air. Trying to add v...

The goal of this discussion is not to push any negativity among private lending operations that have started over the past few years. In fact, "mine is one of them". What we want to do is identify and explain how quic...

Hey y’all, just had a inspection done today on a house I’m under contract with. House is a 2005 located in central Texas. One of the reports was foundation. He wasn’t able to pin point the severity but suggested to g...

Is anyone familiar with Credit Counciling Progams? I've never used one before b/c i've had good credit for many years and have kept my CC balances at a minimal. I've now bought my third property (Cash). Lines of ...

Hello,I recently came to the conlcusion that there had to be a better way to invest for my future. I started asking the right questions, and those questions eventually led me to BP. This site is an amazing collection ...

This is going to sound dumb but I truely don't understand. Ive been searching properties and out of hundreds have found 4 in my area that are killer deals, meeting (and exceeding) the 2% rule, while not being in the g...

There are lots of discussion about having properties in different class area with different quality of tenantsHow to determine which class does a area belong to or the definitions are more subjective to investor?