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After two unsuccessful attempts to buy a SFH (outbid on short sale and HUD home), I'm looking at a duplex to live in half and rent half. I know nothing about real estate and was directed to BP by a friend. I li...
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Alright guys so I finally committed and bought my first house! :) Closing was definitely a new experience- I am glad I was able to use the stuff I read about over the several years of analyzing. Now to my question - G...
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Given that I live in a horrible location for local investing (i.e. Brooklyn) my wife and I are moving forward with the strategy of out-of-state, turnkey investing. While we haven't made our first purchase yet, we have...
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Hi - I've been interested in buying real estate to buy and hold in Bend, OR, as my household has been priced out of Santa Cruz. Just finished listening to a few podcasts, including the one about "But My Market Is Too ...
Hi BP Community,I work full-time and am interested in some of these turnkey solutions I see online that almost seem like one-stop-shop and hassle-free. It seems to be a good way to diversify my investment portfolio if...
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I'm excited to have joined such an amazing community of like minded investors. I'm just starting out in real estate investing, but I do own my current residence in CA.I have a real estate agent and a property manager ...
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A lot of you have seen my responses for different land investing programs & have reached out with questions. I decided to make this post to discuss what I have seen & what my thoughts are. If you reached out...
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Greeting BP Network,Long time listener first time (writer), but I have a life-transition question that I thought I would throw out to the community for advise. I am a licensed architect who's spent the last 10-years d...
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Hi everyone,
My name is David and I purchased my first rental property last month, in the Chicago area. I am out of state and am doing business with a property manager over there. Things have been going smooth with t...
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Hi everyone! My husband and I graduated from University in the Spring, we both have full time W-2 jobs, no debt, a 780 credit score, about $25k saved, and live in Salt Lake City, UT. We’d really love to house hack, bu...