I am looking to purchase a quad. I have been reading a lot over the past several weeks and put together some of the basics to get an initial analysis. This is by no means comprehensive or a final analysis before I p...

So a little backstory first: Ten years ago I moved back to upstate NY looking to buy a starter house for myself. The original plan was to get a duplex and house-hack but the realtor talked me into getting a single fam...

I just started the the Ultimate Guide to Real Estate Investing by BiggerPockets and find it very insightful!  I just completed reading the "finding your niche" section.  When you started, how did y'all go about findin...

How do I deal with the professional investors at the local auctions - Southbay, Los Angeles. How should I expect the so called 7-Angels to react to my bidding and would i have a better chance of success buying from on...

This will my 20,000th post on Biggerpockets. My first post was made about 13 years ago, just as I was getting my license and starting a property management business.Unlike many on BiggerPockets, I am not here to build...

Those here who are familiar with more conventional investing may know about life-cycle funds.  For those who are not, a life-cycle fund is a fund that is chartered in such a way that it invests according to the intere...

When I was 25, the resolution trust corporation (RTC) was auctioning off saving and loan debacle properties. I believe the RTC was formed by the government trying to bail out the S&Ls in trouble. I remember thin...

I live in the Northern Virginia area where most of the properties have about a $3,000 a month mortgage.  My partner and I are looking to buy our first property soon and we plan to house hack it for a year.  I think ab...

Would love to get some input from people in regards to our situation and what the best strategy is to increase our real estate investing strategy. Here are some details:1.) We have a SFH paid $113,500 for in March 201...

I found a property on auction.com that looks like a steal of a deal. Two problems: 1) There is no access before bidding/purchase, 2)It is still occupied, so I can't go peeking through the windows.My question is, if ba...