I am really curious as to what kind of background most people were before they started working.  For example, Were you in a high paying job? or did you owned a business? or were you just a college student like me who ...

Hello BP peeps!My husband and I closed on our first SFH in a B+ neighborhood at the end of June.  After a couple of weekends of hard work to get it where we wanted, we listed the property on Zillow, Trulia, Hotpads, C...

BiggerPockets Partners with TransUnion to Provide Tenant Screening & Credit Checks

In an effort to serve our members, BiggerPockets now offers tenant screening services in concert with the cr...

Hey guys, looking for some advice. I just closed on my first rental last week. The sellers move out in 3 days. My wife and I went ahead and posted the house on the community facebook page a few hours ago and got tons ...

Hi BP,Just wanted to start out on how thankful I am to this site and everyone on it. Last year at this time I would of never guessed that I would be a landlord right now. A little background how this is even possible ...

I'll likely write about this on the blog in more detail, but this week I closed on a refinance of the last private money balloon that I had...  Brandon Turner tells me I can retire now, and while I don't know about th...

After hunting for my first investment property for several months, I've finally secured a townhouse in Baltimore, MD and I will be closing in a week. I am trying to have everything ready, so I can begin renting it out...

Hey Everyone,

I have found a very nice MH with a very motivated buyer. The buyer was at $10K and I ended up being able to talk him down to $1500. He needs to move ASAP.

The problem I have encountered is that the ...

Hi everyone. I have potential tenants who want to rent my house, and they have three dogs and two cats. Yeah, I know that's a LOT of pets. I've had a dog - a small dog - in my house for eight years, and there's been n...