Wife and I just moved here from Fl and currently learning the area. We are looking into buying a multifamily property as our first home purchase and to get started in the rental market. Currently we are reading a...

I'll mix a starting out and success story in one post. I met the bigger pockets challenge and negotiated my way into my first buy and hold investment. Today was my closing. The property needed some plumbing and ele...

Hello BP members.  I am a new user from Huntington, NY.  I work in the Allied Health field here on Long Island and am looking to create some extra cash flow through REI.  I am looking to buy properties to rent (SFR, M...

Why is it so hard to shift the belief system from money accumulation to building income? Of course, as an investor, I am speaking to passive income but my discussion is about all forms of income. Almost everyone I tal...

A wealthy childhood friend and I were talking about my SFH REI. I have 10 conforming loans on cash-flowing properties, and we're trying to come up with a win-win. He's not a RE investor, but he has about $1M in his Ro...

I posted this in the member blogs last week, but wanted to get some more eyeballs on it.As many of you know, Mister Money Mustache (MMM) wrote a blog post entitled The Shockingly Simple Math Behind Early Retirement th...

Hi everyone, What are your honest thoughts on the market? My wife and I are excitingly closing on our first rental properties, two duplexes. The cash flow will be rocky in the beginning but I believe in the accumulate...

Hello everyone.  This is my first post, look forward to learning a lot here.  I've been interested in real estate investing for a long time, and have taken the idea off the back burner.  Here's a little info about mys...

I am so excited to be joining a network of amazing individuals who are so passionate about real estate and investing and I am eager to learn as much as I can. My name is Jonathan and I grew up in a small town in the N...

We all know there is risk owning real estate, I wanted to share some thoughts on tenant risks, which seem to scare people the most.  Please reply with what you have done to minimize this type of risk!  Let's build a g...