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Newbie here starting out, that is about graduate college and is looking into buying a multi family to house hack. The certain house I am looking at has 4 beds upstairs then 2 downstairs. I would live in downstairs whi...
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I am trying to find info on property management companies in the Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge area. Does anyone here use a management company in that area? Could you tell me who you use and why or why not you would recomme...
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I was born and raised in San Francisco and as we all know, this city is changing big time. My wife and I felt fortunate that we were able to buy a home here in 2016 despite the astronomical cost. Our children know not...
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Here's a self-serving question - for those of you out there who have been regularly using BiggerPockets for months or years - when did things "click"? When did you realize the power of BiggerPockets and it's ability ...
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Hello everyone,my wife and I want to start our real estate investing journey to boost our wealth and retirement fund. Long-term single or small multifamily rental would be our strategy to go. We live in California at ...
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I spent a few years in the mid west in little towns that mined lead. At one time, the real estate investors there probably thought “we use lead for everything, no way it could fail as a commodity. If I hold onto this ...
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Let me start by saying I am all in on RE. I have an MBA, spent years learning about RE before I pulled the trigger. And when I did, I bought 5 houses worth over $1M in 18 months with only $100K of my own money. So I f...
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Hello everyone, I have a family friend that is about to go to college and is very interested in real estate investing and says that will be his future. He asked me what he should major in and I told him business admin...
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Hi all, newbie here with a few questions regarding investing in STRs in Tulum. I’ve been evaluating a few different recommended markets for STRs (Florida panhandle, Smoky Mountains etc) and I’ve found that from a numb...
Anyone else getting notified this morning of paused Ashcroft distributions due to refinancing issues?
We have been working on refinancing the asset in order to access the equity and create liquidity to earnestly res...