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Too many companies have been very successful after being started by High School drop outs. Others have success by individuals dropping out of college to start their business. Others who have a 4 or 6 year degree end u...
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Hi all,First I will introduce myself, I am Tiffany, a newb to the investing community and I am loving learning about it, networking, and talking business. I am into design, art, travel, and meeting new people. This so...
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This a topic my family and I have discussed quite a bit and that bugs the hell out of me. Why is it that in schools nowadays we make our children learn 100's of years of history and complex mathematics that few outsid...
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This is off RE topic, but since we have a lot of professionals on here and I noticed a few pilots I'm hoping to get some insight on the gravity of my fears.
I travel a lot with my company, including flights cross-cou...
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I have a great employee, who is a hard worker and very attentive to details and or codes, which makes having him on staff frustrating but good. I feel as he has lost his drive/desire to work on real estate, he is take...
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I'll be attending the upset tax sales in Dauphin and Cumberland counties next month, and I'm starting to sift through the lists. I've eliminated properties in sub-par areas/school districts but I still have a list of...
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Hello Bigger Pockets,I am a long time lurker and occasional poster looking to network and learn.Several years ago, before online poker was destroyed with lawsuits, I was a professional, online poker player. I read bo...
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I hope to get everyone's opinions of how the Houston market is doing and share what their strategy is for the coming months as well as 2017 for investment properties in Houston. I'll start off the discussion.
I've b...
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Hey BP, This is my first question on a forum so give me some slack.Through my networking I've come across an older gentleman in Massachusetts (MA) who recently lost his wife, he has stopped paying his mortgage, stope...
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Property insurance seems to always be one of my biggest expenses. Most of my properties are replacement cost. The agent says the cost to rebuild is this number. Which is so much higher then I would ever be able to sel...