Sheldon Vic
Grad student turned REI seeking advice on first property
Hello all,Currently living in Hawaii finishing up my last year of grad school (I have a little less than 1 year left). Have a family of 4 and currently renting. My wife works full-time, while I have part-time work (no...
Edita D.
first time doing 1031 exchange
Hey guys!I am getting pre-qualified for a loan, we are planning to do a 1031 exchange.The realtor referred me to 3 lenders, 2 of which never done 1031 exchanges. Does the loan officer need to be knowledgeable about 10...
Chris Clothier
How To Use BiggerPockets As A TREMENDOUS Lead Generator
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 ...
Chris Jensen
Targeting a Specific Renter Profile
In business strategy, one of the first and most important activities is to define your perfect (target) customer and gather as much understanding as possible about what that customer values. With a target customer se...
Fred Ramos
Raw Sewage treatment
Am currently rehabbing a house and can hear the water gushing under the house (Crawl Space) when toilet is flushed. I'll be cutting into the floor and fear that there may be raw sewage under the house (the leak wasn'...
Tyler Warne
Arbitrage a 1031 in land??
A developer has a property under contract right now, he has the engineering done so that he will be able to develop the apartments. Meanwhile he is selling a property that is in another town and would like to 1031 the...
Sam Wilson
Benefits & bonuses in the current hiring market
Besides a decent, competitive wage what other benefits and bonuses do you offer your staff (both to retain them and to hire them)? And do you offer those to full-time and/or part-time staff?We are based in Memphis,...
Shafi Noss
Multifamily Investor Demographics
Hi everyone,I'm trying to get a sharper picture of investor demographics. Imagine you're funding a syndication and have gathered all the investors into a room and could ask each of them how much they are investing and...
Michaela G.
Work-from-home long-term effect on real estate?
With many corporations now supposedly considering work-from-home as the new normal, what do you think the effect will be on real estate?
Will residents of studios or 1 bedrooms now want to move up to larger units? W...
Jordan Bales
New college graduate in rural Southwest Virginia
As the title states I just graduated,early, from the University of Virginia in December with a bachelors in Statistics-econometrics. Thankfully I found a job near my home town in Southwest Virginia working in IT as a ...