I'm taking a little bit of a break this year to focus on scaling, streamlining and re-strategizing going forward. Part of my plan is to better track my existing portfolio. I may plan to pivot to a different area in th...

Greeting BiggerPockets Family,

I am a looking to purchase my first real estate investment property this year and was wondering, what the best neighborhood in St. Louis was for investment properties.
This first prope...

Hi everyone,

My real name is Patrick Lang, I have lived all over the Chicago suburbs, and I am excited to join the BP community. I hope a 5am introduction won't get lost!

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So I am buying a new to me 4-plex and I at this time I am going to keep all the existing tenants. I am wanting to send them a letter with some basic information about myself as their new landlord. I am going to keep t...

We live on 35 acres, and purchased 10 acres of it (unimproved pasture) with a self-directed IRA.  If we wanted to put a rental property in that IRA, could we then pull the pasture land out without tax consequences?

Path of progress is always an interesting perspective, whether from a general 30,000 ft view of a county, city or neighborhood.  In my neighborhood or North Park, I bought it was I felt was the path of progress, the w...

I own two properties, one is my primary and the other is a rental.  Currently, my sister is my tenant and underpaying the market value but it was in good conscious to help a family member during the covid pandemic and...

It has been three years since my last real estate purchase. In those years: my family grew by 2, we bought our personal residence to fit our family of 5, and paid in full for our wedding/ honeymoon. With the investing...

Hi Biggerpockets,I have been living in my first multifamily property for over a year and have decided to purchase my second one.  I am going to move into the new property and am renting out my old unit.  I read on the...

Debating on what to do with my current primary home as a job is taking us out of state. I currently own a home in Seattle (Queen Anne) that has appreciated roughly $1M since we purchased it nearly 9-years-ago. After t...