I'm examining the strategy of buying non-performing notes in my area from lending institutions and wanted to know if anyone had experience with this? Specifically, who to speak with at the bank? How to get banks ...
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Hi Everyone, My name is Thomas and I just turned 24. I have been an auditor for about a year now and currently working towards the CPA exam. By the end of 2015 I should be finished. Real Estate is where my passion lie...
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I'm looking to get started in real estate by purchasing a 2-4 unit (ideally 4) through FHA financing. I looked online and found a few properties that peaked my interest and I reached out to a Realtor who had a few mul...
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What are some signs you see of any area that is gentrifying or about to gentrify to any veteran real estate investors or even people who have seen a bad neighborhood turn into well developed in a period of time ?
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I am a hard money/private money lender/rehab-er in my area. I had a lunch meeting with a rehab-er about a project he was considering. He showed me the property he was looking at and gave me all of the details (it happ...
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Hello BP,As I continue to learn about REI, I have struggled with the B, C, and War Zone concepts when it comes to neigborhoods. Specificly Sacramento, Ca but also in general. For the Sacramento investors what would ...
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Hello Bigger Pockects Family,
I hope everyones 2012 is going as great as 2011 went. website. I have both enjoyed and learned a tremendous amount from reading the posts and blogs from this site. I use the postcard ...
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Hey guys it's been a while... I'm renting out an apartment. I listed it on craigslist and got "the usual". Some good applicants, some bad applicants. Some dreamers with no income, unable to verify income, past evictio...
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Howdy everyone from the Evergreen State (Washington). My name is Richard, I am 55 years old and have a wonderful pain the butt oops I mean wife (lol). I also have a 12 year old going on 20 son and a bigger pain in ...
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Hello BP community,Kokou here from San Diego CA and I am glad to be part of the BP community. Totally new to real estate investment with zero experience and zero deal under my belt, but I am already a PRO…well…at leas...