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Hello everyone,My name is Michael Ellis and my wife and I live in Redding, CA. Now that we are in our 40's and have two small children, we figured we better get in gear and start building a future for ourselves and ou...
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Greetings all!My name is JP, and I'm located in The Woodlands, TX (a north suburb of Houston). A quick blurb about my background - have an engineering degree from the University of Louisville, and an MBA from the Kel...
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I read Ken McElroy's book the ABC's of REI and he wrote about how he figures the value of a property. There was an equation he uses but I can't remember what it is and I don't have his book. Does anyone know that equa...
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My name is Dru, I'm a 24 year old beginner to investing in real estate. I have read a lot of books and spent a lot of time listening to the podcasts on this site and I'm ready to make my first move. My end-game goa...
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Well, I know I need to do something but I am darn near not financeable. (Long story, hope to write a book about it someday). Hoping to get my feet wet in either a flip using private money. Or a buy and hold in Midw...
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Hello BiggerPockets family,
I needed some helping analyzing a deal in California. I am trying to get into multifamily units, so I have reading mostly Steve Berges books and been learning from the BP site.
There is a...
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I've been lurking for a while and have found Bigger Pockets an unbelievable wealth of knowledge. I live in the Bismarck area and am interested in SFR in both the Bismarck/Mandan and Jamestown areas. I own a vacation...
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Medium term rentals are the new darling of short term rentals. As a large chunk of the American workforce can now work from anywhere, investors are scrambling to provide great places for these digital nomads to explor...
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hey everyone newbie here. i have been doing research and feel blessed to have come across this site. for about the last few months i have been unemployed and collecting and realizing that working for a company is not ...
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Hi everyone! My name is Aaron Yates. I just found this site a couple days ago but have been glued to it for 3 days now. I love it. I needed this years ago so my venture could have been a lot easier for me to get where...