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I’m a real estate investor based out of Los Angeles. I have been doing it for ten lovely years. However, what I am about to say truly pierces my perpetual LA pride. You couldn’t pay me enough money to invest in Los An...
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Hi BP,Do investors, purchasing a property with the sole expectation of renting it out, make it harder for owner-occupants to find affordable housing?This is the question that came up from a family member. He lives in...
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Hello BP folks,
I have an interesting situation for one of my rental property which I purchased in Feb 2016 for $109K.
The property has now appraised for $130K and I expect it to appraise at the same rate. I put dow...
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The sales person I have been working with to send me deals recently left the Morris invest company and he has switched over to a company called limitless turnkey. I’ve already heard bad things from Morris reason why I...
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Hello BiggerPockets community! I'd like to take a moment to thank everyone in advance for all the care and considerable knowledge that's been put into this site. It's an incredibly powerful resource that I've lurke...
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This thread is a general one for Tucson investors to introduce themselves to each other and chat about our market. I know there are a lot on bigger pockets who don't post often.
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How to avoid large loses in passive investments?
As important as due diligence, analysis, knowledge of the property type, track record of the syndicator, correctly predicting economic trends, and timing is, the numbe...
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After months ... well, maybe a year, of lurking, I've submitted my "introduction" post and made a few other small contributions to some of the fora.
Now I've sat down to raise the questions responsible for my being h...
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Hello,A lead came in today from a gentlemen who wants to sell his house immediately. I went out to the property this afternoon, and I would classify him as extremely motivated (aka he offered me the keys). The probl...
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Getting pretty sick and tired and annoyed with the top contributors in forums just posting random little answers has nothing to do with answering the posted question or helpful. They do it just to get more activity po...