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Pursing a first-time home purchase and FI (financial independence) seems not possible from my position. Do you agree? What am I not considering? Should I change my risk-tolerance in order to pursue both goals? Any gui...
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Hello BP! I just passed the board exam to become a licensed Real Estate agent in Florida. Specifically in South Florida. My plan is to find a good 100% commission brokerage to hang my license with. The reason I was lo...
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My scenario: I have 40k$ in cash right now. 10K$ in stocks. Me and wife both have W2 jobs. We both want to retire in 10 years from now with 10k$ in cash flow per month.
Goal: Buy SFH rental property and rent them ou...
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I have two rental properties in Missouri. Both with a mortgage. One of them has $25k left on it and the other one has $90k on it. If I pay them off in the next few years I would be cash flowing right around $1,800/mon...
Hi guys,I need some advice from the pros on if and how I should try to grow my parents real estate portfolio. My dad invested in some real estate 10-15 years ago. He has 6 investment properties and his primary home. H...
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In David Greene's book "Long Distance Real Estate Investing" (which is awesome, btw) I saw an argument that I didn't understand fully, which is basically "you should overpay on your mortgages to refinance them faster ...
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Hi everyone,
I only discovered biggerpockets yesterday and I've already learned so much! Wanted to bounce some ideas off of the pros here...
I'm a soon to be high income earner (stable, high demand job) who is look...
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I just enrolled in my companie's 403B tax deferered retirement "match" program. I don't plan to wait that long to retire. I am serious about using real estate as a tool to escape the life of being a paid slave. I just...
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Hi everyone. I am new to the forum but I've been putting in a lot of time going through the posts and learning as much as I can about real estate investing. Ive been looking at a property close to where I live here in...
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Who on the site owns and/or operates adult family homes? I've done a lot of research and found that as investments their cash flow can be great.
I'm looking to gain insight into the strategy or either building new c...