I bought a 8-unit apartment building; the value add is that rents are 20% below market value. My strategy was to buy, let the tenants go, rehab, and raise the rents. We gave notice to all the tenants (who are month-to...

Hey all. I recently heard of someone who has acquired a lot of property recently. Some main st village type property, mixed use with store fronts etc. I heard through the grape fine that he had recently started “scoop...

Athe end of the year, I'm quitting my job and booking a 1-way ticket overseas. I'm going to try to freelance and make some money while traveling to make this as sustainable as possible for a long period of time (proba...

So Dave Ramsey says that when he interviewed 10,000 millioniares close to none used debt or leverage to get there. So how many of you out there have used leverage, maybe conservatively, to increase you net worth and c...

BEFORE I say anything.  I want to be clear I am totally bullish on real estate investing.  But I want to warn people that it is not what you think it is.  And share my own journey over the last 3 years.Ok.  Out of sta...

Hello BiggerPockets members. Love his community. Have anyone of you hired Tardus for wealth coaching? They are the creators of the Income Snowball (i.e. Income Snowball, a system of investing in which a person can cre...

To borrow or not to borrow, debt free is the way to be etc etc etc. The way I see this is a risk vs reward. How do you decide though where the risk is to great or the reward to little? How do you decide to purchase a ...

A recent article that I wrote on the BP blog received some criticism because I suggest that a 401(k) is one of the best ways to increase your net worth.This strategy was criticized by a couple of readers and I thought...