I am a current client of Royal Legal Solutions out of Austin Texas. I am almost scared to ask this question, but here it goes. Has anyone had dealings with them and are they legit? I am starting to wonder. I am not re...

So I’m new to bigger pockets (my first post so far!) I’ve been diving into real estate books and listening to podcasts since last October. I have two houses that have about $200k equity in each of them. One is a vacat...

Communism - short definition: a political, social, and economic system in which the state, governed by an elite party control production, labor, distribution, and largely, the social and cultural life and thought of ...

BP Friends! I'm Dave Meyer -- the data guy around BiggerPockets. We're expanding how we use data both onsite, and in our podcast, youtube, blog, and other content. It's really exciting! At least for me it is, and I ho...

Hey BP team. Have a question for you guys. I just recently closed on a rental property in LA where the zestimate was 660K (it sold for 640K last year in June) I managed to get the purchase price of 516K which I'm exci...

As a new investor, especially in the world of multi-units, I'm sure you have come across a ton of buildings that are being sold "as-is" and are required to write that into the offer that you send over. Although it see...

I placed 3 offers in the last month in California, one of them over asking price. Lost all 3 to cash buyers. I'm offering 20-25% down and have an excellent crredit rating. What's a body to do?

Here's a chart that I saw today from a reliable source. It shows the total debt of households, businesses and the government. There are two things that are quite clear from the chart:

1. Total debt has increased e...