Hey!  I'd love to discuss the Chicago economy, and how it is going to effect the real estate market.  I believe we are in a period of slow national growth for the next couple years, but that doesn't mean certain areas...

So I plan on purchasing in nevada. I live in california... I found a listing that I am interested in, I was wondering what the advantage of just going directly to the listing agent opposed to finding my own agent and ...

Hi all,Greetings from Toronto, Canada. I am new to the BiggerPockets forum and I think I am already addicted to this web place (specially to the podcasts). I started researching for the possibility of investing on my ...

Just read a thread where a landlord said that his instruction to his tenant screening company was to automatically disqualify anyone with a felony.

HUD has this guideline in public housing. In some cases it...

Hey guys- I invest in RE full time, but have done only a lot of flips and small multi family so far. Interested in possibly buying a mobile home park. Researching with Jefferson Lilly stuff, MHU, and everything else t...

I've been reading up on using self directed IRA's to finance real estate, and I haven't found an answer to this question. Once you buy a property in a SDIRA is there any way to get that property out of the IRA and sti...

I have purchased a multi family over a year ago, rehab took almost 6 months and it was mainly due to, and a series of poor contractors and poor property managers, as I was doing this from afar. The property was acquir...

I advertised an apartment early in the month for a March 1 move-in and got a number of bites. However, I put in some engineered hardwood in the apartment and it wasn't show ready until mid-month and raised the ren...

What is the best way for someone who is currently working a full-time, 9-6 job to begin working part time as an agent, with the hopes of building a book of business over time to transition to a full-time career as a R...

So we wholesaled our first deal and made $10k, just closed Thursday! I put it under contract and had it assigned in just a few days and it closed 30 days after I got it under contract. I got a call from a mailer we se...