Melita Costoso
Listed on bank REO site, listing agent will not present offer
I found a listing on a bank REO website a couple of months ago on a property we could afford to pay cash for. it is NOT listed on the MLS. Our agent took us to view the property the day after it was listed on the we...
Jason Baldwin
Crime Rate - How high is too high?
I recently stumbled on a fully occupied 6 unit property that would bring in about 35% Cash on Cash and that does take into consideration 15% vacancy. The city itself has a higher than average crime rate according to n...
Chris Mason
It's now a buyer's market.
Hypothesis: It's now a buyer's market. Some of the agents, who often only participate in one transaction every month or two, and are thus unaware, leading to some quirky anomalies (since buyers/sellers trust their age...
Lenny Smith
Let's get right to it, I need financial advice.
Alright. As the title says I am in need of financial advice. I am 28. I have been working a job I hate for two years, and have managed to save close to 10k. At the beginning of the year I inherited a little over 15...
Gino Barbaro
Where Do You Think People Fail When Not Achieving Financial Freedom?
I've been obsessed the past decade on trying to understand why some people become financially free, while the majority of the population is living paycheck to paycheck.I just launched a book called Baby Money Soldiers...
Andrew Perkins
Can real estate create happiness
Hello!A friend and I have recently begun sitting down with people who identify as “Happy”, and trying to find out what that means to them. It made me curious, as a part of the biggerpockets community, how real estate ...
Amy Zemser
Using your home equity to purchase rental units
Hi BP friends, I'm a landlord in upstate NY looking for some advice about generating revenues to purchase another buy and hold. For the past few months, I've been reading a great deal about wholesaling (I even starte...
Marty True
Wholesale to the 3rd, 4th, 5th Power!
As a "cash buyer" I am (or was) on many wholesalers' buyers lists. There is a fairly recent trend where real estate agents/brokers are getting on the "re-wholesale" bandwagon and basically adding on an additional $5k-...
J. Martin
How Close to the Top? - SF Bay Area Housing Affordability Analysis - (w/ Charts & Graphs!) by me
Executive Summary:Because of the real estate I own, and prospective potential purchases, I wanted to know more about where we are in the real estate cycle in the SF Bay Area. Inspired by great students and researchers...
Daniel Cuevas
Don't start investing until you have $100,000.
Once of my favorite entrepreneurs would have to be the one and only Grant Cardone. So naturally I listen to his podcast and follow a lot of his material. One number that he continuously brings up is $100,000 and once ...