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If you have 50k to buy rental property with, where and what would you purchase?
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As a private lender, I'm suddenly getting a lot of requests for three things that concern me.
1. Lending the Downpayment (behind another hard money lender)2. Lending all the borrowers closing costs3. Lending funds fo...
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As someone who has paid to go through multiple real estate training programs and mentorships, I'm curious to know your thoughts on what I have experienced, observed, learned, and discovered in the past few years. Here...
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Hi fellow BP members. I'm helping Bigger Pockets work on a project about using real estate investing to retire early (aka achieve financial independence).Would you mind taking a brief survey (mostly multiple choice &a...
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As the rental market stays hot the rates are increasing quite a bit year after year. I don't see how that continue. When that slows or retreats does anyone have an experience, anecdotal or otherwise, as to how that...
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Buying more real estate may increase your wealth faster, but at additional risk. Once you have money, even if just over a million, could it be better to reduce your risk rather than adding more risk by going into more...
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Its awkward, but it needs to be said....
The FACTS about our economy (GDP, unemployment, workforce participation, etc...) have no bearing on asset prices!
I'm not an economist, I'm just a curious young man. There w...
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Hi BP members!! This will be our first post so please bare with us. So we received a call from a lady working for Renatus called Christina and she offered the mentoring we were looking for. She asked a series of quest...