HI everyone, My goal to purchase an investment home now is to keep it long term and eventually it will become my place to retire (goal to retire in the next 10 years). At the moments, I'm looking at 2 properties both ...

Hey guys. My wife and I have been wanting to get into the real estate investment scene for quite some time, and I think we're about ready to get our feet wet. We live in the Austin area, but due to the high prices fee...

I recently attended a "Financial Planning" class at my job. Someone asked about the "Interest Only Loans". The instructor said "NO, NO NO". I was wondering why. He didn't get into it he just said it's only good if you...

Thought folks might find this episode interesting:http://freakonomics.com/podcast/rent-control/(and couldn't figure out which forum to post it under!)

quick back story: Self employed RE Broker in Greater Seattle Wa, my wife is a w2 employee, 133k HELOC, 50k COH, looking to acquire first investment through brrrr, flip and/or short term (airbnb) most likely out of sta...

Newbie here. In doing some of the reading here on the site, I ran across this graphic. http://www.biggerpockets.com/rei/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Real-Estate-Cycle1.png

I realize that there a multiple versi...

Hi BP! My name is Tony Scarangella and I currently live in Queens, NY. I’m a newbie investor with exactly zero deals under my belt. A little about me and how I found the community...For the last 10+ years I’ve worked ...

Good Morning BP,Just wanted to run a deal by you to see if it is something you would purchase: -7 Unit Building: Blue collar town of 2,000 people.  Surrounding town is 30,000 population. -List Price: $259,900 (going i...

Hello BPers,Due to recent rise in the market, I wanted to run the potential options to see what other “long buy and hold investors” are doing. What are your thoughts on potential strategies below? Appreciate your inpu...

Hello to Dayton, Ohio investors! I'm interested in the Dayton market and trying to understand what's been happening there since the Great Recession. I've read some of the Dayton CAFR and it says the Dayton Region expe...