This is the most basic budget question.  My wife and I use Mint.com to track our finances and we just finished sitting down and looking at our spending for the year.  This gives a really good place to start for a budg...

I was wondering , if I am the only one, having hard time finding 'positive cash flow' property in Bay Area(California). Or is this a fact, and known to everyone? Sorry, i am newbie to biggerpockets, so this question m...

Hi everyone, I joined BP a month or so ago and was able to find some great info on here. I'm an investor from Las Vegas, looking to move my investments out East, and Florida seems to be a good place, that pops up posi...

Hi everyone!I'm brand new to the idea of investing and I have been diligently researching the basics thanks to BP!I live right outside of Washington DC so I plan on investing in properties further away because of the ...

I am an older woman about to sell my single family residence. I want to use some of the proceeds to launch into real estate investing.My initial idea was to buy parcels of raw land, deal with the county to get all the...

Hi All,I am new to RE investing. We recently moved out of our first home in Lehi and bought two new properties in American Fork. One home is our primary residence (that we already live in) and the other is our first r...

All the hype on where to make the most money and find the best deals seems to be you have to find them off market. This being said, I have been trying just about every option possible outside the MLS to find a duplex ...

if there is no positive cashflow expected by renting single family home here in bay area, (as property tax, mortgage and competition etc too high )what can be done to increase rental value of the home without increas...

Hey BP, I'd really appreciate some feedback on a deal I'm considering.
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I'm getting into real-estate investing and have an opportunity to buy the lot next to my primary residence. It's located in North Phoenix ...

With all the speculation on where we are currently in the real estate cycle and some more or less anecdotal evidence supporting a market crash or still more golden years to come I wanted to know the numbers and facts ...