I'm so excited a new chapter just opened in my REI career! This was always in my mind, and after 3 months of going after auctions, I landed my first acquisition! For the record I have 3 rentals out of which one was a ...

I was just wondering if anyone on BP or have heard of any investor being called a "slum lord"? Would anyone else take offense to being called a "slum lord". It puts a bad taste in my mouth personally. Below is the sto...

Ok.. call me crazy, but what does your spidey senses tell you?? Called on a property that I'm interested in. 2/2 MFR, $100k, pulling $700 each side. Looks like a C area. But, with some freshening up I think it could b...

Does the upper left corner of the site look a little different? Actually, the WHOLE top looks different. Welcome to the NEW look of BiggerPockets. We have a NEW logo, a NEW navigation bar, and a NEW Footer. We've clea...

Some flips are easy...paint, carpet, clean, and list.  Then there are the hard ones.  I've never posted a diary of a flip before.  With over 600 flips under my belt I sometimes think that I've seen it all.  Then I see...

Dear Pocketers,

How do you harden / bullet-proof your rentals?

While I've never had anyone utterly trash a rental of mine, I've seen the damage they can do first hand (typically when buying the rental and seeing ...

My wife and I had been interested in purchasing a rental property for about a year with the intent of making this a business. She's a teacher, I'm an engineer and we have little faith in the future of Social Security ...

Seeking ADVICE / Property is in Norristown, PAI lent money to somebody (a land trust) for a fix and flip. Unfortunately, I did not do my homework beforehand, otherwise I would have realized there are 4 other investors...

There is so many software's and "must haves" in the real estate investing world that i do not know where to go to what to do. I need to know if having a CRM software and/or VA/VA's really helps that much. I currently ...

Does anyone buy properties without an LLC?