Hello all,Newbie to bigger pockets making a jump into my first flip. First a little bit about me, I am a licensed general contractor with over 10 years of experience working on mostly commercial projects, I have done ...

I love real estate investing, its awesome.  However, in my personal life, I'm a minimalist.  I really could invest more if I minimized my personal expenses.  My idea..... Buy a lot of land somewhere, preferably 30 min...

Hi all,I signed up with Buildium and was hoping for some advise or tips from experienced Property Management software users. I only manage my five SFRs, nobody else's. I decided to start using Buildium now to stay ahe...

Over the past year there have been a lot of political hot button topics making their way to the public eye. Some of the issues that have blanketed our news coverage include racism, gay rights, gun rights, and religiou...

This might be an interesting topic born from another thread.

When is buying or operating in real estate a speculative venture and when are you investing? How do you define speculating and investing, what's the differ...

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I'm new to these forums. A few months ago, I read Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad, Poor Dad. After that, I bought and read a lot of the other books in the Rich Dad series. I then began reading real estate books from oth...

Hi All,I am looking at making a purchase of a vacation rental with my SDIRA. I have had long term rentals held this way and I am pretty familiar with the basic rules related to performing work, UBIT, etc.To set it up ...

Hey guys, as mentioned, I'm fairly new to the REI world. I decided to try and put together an example deal for a property in my city (Los Angeles). This is a simple rental property calculation, but it comes back looki...

Morning BP,My question today is about section 8. I picked up the S8 Bible VI&II the other day and found it to be a rather interesting read.  A local investor turned me on to it saying that he's followed the same m...

Two questions for anyone willing to help a newbie.1) what is the point of a roth or traditional IRA if you can only add 5000 to it each year. I am 30 so that means I have 29.5 years I can add to it. If my math is corr...