RE investors usually put down what 10-25% and finance the rest when purchasing real estate.Why not do the same in a REIT (or two)? There are some paying dividends of 10%+ right now.Do you make a higher % than that on ...

This article is mainly about Chinese investors in the UK, but let me tell you that they are here in the US as well. According to the article, investors from China and Hong Kong make up 11% of all UK sales.
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Hey everyone! I'm closing on my first property next week (finally!) and I've been advised by some friends to go the LLC route. It's a triplex, and I do plan on purchasing more in the near future. I guess my question i...

Hey BP! I'm considering rolling my 401K from a company I left into a self-directed IRA with Equity Trust based on recommendations from several other investors. Has anyone here worked with Eq Trust before? Have you use...

Hey BP fam, I'm looking at buying a rental in Ohio or Nebraska. I live in California is there a guide on how to go about this? Do I need an LLC? Can I purchase without having to step foot out of California? Is there a...

Hello BiggerPockets community,
I'm in a pretty unique situation right now, and I’d appreciate some guidance. Unfortunately, I lost both my father and a close mentor within the past six weeks, and each left me signifi...

From what I understand there are four ways to make money from a rental property:

1) Cash flow - Pretty straightforward. Total money you receive as income is more than total expenses.
2) Appreciation - Increase in the...

I'm using Quickbooks to track overall finances. So I have a FixedAssets account in the chart of accounts, but that's not really usable for tracking the per-item depreciation...there's no entry for when it was placed i...

This flies in the face of everything that we have ever learned about retirement accounts.  So I want to start this by stating that it is stupid for 99% of the people out there to cash out retirement accounts but I wou...