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Greetings, Gregory Pleshaw. I'm a former journalist in business, tech and fine arts who is currently an Uber driver with real estate investment aspirations. I have absolutely zero experience in real estate, which in...
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Hello BP Community! My name is Kalvin and I am from the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. I have recently just started getting my feet wet in this industry. I am taking the time to research the industry using Bigger Pock...
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Hello everyone!I’ve just finished reading “Millionaire Real Estate Investor” and I was wondering if anyone has any other real estate books they loved and why. Appreciate it :)
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I'm new here my name is Matt and I'm located in Northwest Indiana but aside from a introduction I was wondering if their is a possible chance of a repeat of 07 and what are the telltale signs of such a situation.
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For those of you trying to raise capital right now in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, you will likely face challenges from your investors that are normally faithful in investing with your group.
Here are fou...
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Hi BP brains,I'm 99% sure I want to release the equity in my condo i rent out to free-up cash to buy some turnkey SFHs or a MF. It used to be our home so fell into landlording. It's close by, we manage ourselves and t...
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Just got back from Dallas Tarek and Christina El Mossa's Flip Advantage training. Good training but the $20k to $70k cost for advanced training and prop stream software was too much to me. Thoughts anyone?
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When I scroll through this forum I see lots of stories about the first deal or the tenth. The profit on this deal, the addition of a new unit. Turning a bad deal into a good one. Those are often wonderful stories and ...
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Hi, I’ve been on BiggerPockets for a while now. I wanted to get started about 2 years ago and posted on the main forum. Unfortunately, I was in a different mindset and had a large truck payment with a high debt to inc...
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Why do syndicators focus so hard on IRR? If you have a specific return you are targeting, wouldn't PV be a better metric to calculate?