What are the reasons why millionaire and successful real estate investors lost it all during the crash? Was it over leverage? What does it really mean? Was it because of the neighborhood they've invested? 

Hello everybody this is my first post and I sincerely appreciate any feedback. I am 24 years old working a (mostly) cash job so my income on paper is insufficient for a loan and my credit isn't great. I recently came ...

Hi all,I am hoping to get into the world of hard money / private lending using my Solo 401k and had a few questions.1. I have approx. $120k in my Solo 401k but the deal that I am planning to fund needs about $180k. Is...

Hello BP community! My name is Kristian, and I'm a newbie (OK, longtime lurker) in my late 20s from San Francisco. It was always my dad's dream to build a portfolio of rental properties that would enable him to quit h...

I am new to Bigger Pockets but I have had quite a bit of experience in 4 1/2 years. Dropped out of college at 20 and bought one unit with 20% down in 2010. After that it was a snowball effect and I dove in head first....

Hi all, I am new to rental business, have been listening BiggerPockets podcasts and read "Rental Property Investing" book, I am trying to start rental business, and I am looking property in multiple cities so far I tr...

I'm new to the forum, just heard about it in Brandon Turner's book on rental properties and signed up today. I have been learning about real estate primarily through audiobooks and several real estate agents and inves...

A while ago I began the process of buying a 3br 1 bath 1920s Tudor in a C-class neighborhood in Minneapolis.  Final sale price was $191k.  Actually, the price that we had originally agreed on was $182.5k, but th...

Greetings, thank you for your time and attention. I'm coming here with humility to ask for your perspective because I don't have any.  I'm giving you my questions first just in case you don't want to read the whole po...

This is more of a rant than an informational post. Why are good wholesalers so hard to find? My experience thus far with wholesalers has been less than pleasant. I started off with some smaller names, but found out qu...