Hi all! I am curious what are some things you wish you knew as a first time investor in real estate, and how did you start?  I am a CPA with 7 years of experience in which I specialized in real estate partnership taxa...

I am a data guru/excel junky and part of my professional gig is building automated tools using Excel and Access and lots of coding and macros.  I have built a simple (in my highly automated subjective opinion) excel s...

Does anyone have a tool they use for construction management. We considered using MS Project, but found ProjectLibre (free). Every project is different, but it would be nice to have a chart that we could lay out. I...

Who should i ask for when im cold calling 100 unit apartment complexes?The people at the front desk say the owner has no interest in selling when i call. I need to get around the GK and speak to someone higher up. Or ...

I’m either looking for a spreadsheet or I’m going to make one that will show me what my hard money costs will likely be on a deal. I would like to be able to quickly reference what it will cost to hold a property at X...

Hey guys,I am trying to do some bottoms-up market analysis. Figured you guys could probably point me towards a data provider that would have city level data exportable to excel so you can manipulate it. I don't mind i...

Hi Everyone - In an effort to determine ARV on a potential fix and flip in an efficient manner, I've asked my r/e agents to send me data extracts from the MLS on the comps. This allows me to avoid manually typing in t...

Hello everyone,
I've been delving into real estate research and plan to continue to do so going forward; however, I'm wondering if my current goals are illogical. I want to use real-estate as a secondary income sourc...

Hello Bigger Pockets!

My partner and I are getting closer to closing our first buy and hold deal and are hoping we could get some more experienced eyes to help us analyze this.

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I am in the process of looking for a program to manage my mailing lists and leads. I need something that lets me import lists which I will later export to send to a direct mail printing company. Because I may be get...