I live in Southern California, and will be for the foreseeable future. From listening to a few podcasts and reading posts here, it seems like California is not the best place to start for newbies with not a lot of cap...

Note: I wrote this post pretty quickly, so I’m sure there will be some questions and perhaps even some confusion…if so, feel free to ask, and I have some additional disclaimers at the bottom... I’ve written a bunch ...

So, there's this house that has been deeply discounted about $100,000 off its original listing price. Just last month there were 3 armed robberies next door to that house on a street with businesses. There have been m...

Hi Everyone,This is my first post on BiggerPockets.Can anyone point me to an article/video/resource that will teach me how to select the best city/state to buy rental property in and factors that I should consider whe...

Hi there BP!the following is something I feel needs to be written to kind of get a lot of things on the table.  First off, a couple of disclosures:  1) I am NOT a millionaire in real estate.  I'm just a hard-working d...

Hi, I’m a new agent and one of the brokers I’m interviewed with mentioned the opportunity to fill out BPO reports in order to generate a little bit of income while sales are slow.   What exactly does does a BPO entail...

I have seen several conversations lately which have had some form of Due On Sale or Alienation Clause concept in them. As such I want to address the topic and provide a little opinion as well.

First let's start wi...

Hi everyone,My wife and I would love to move to a better house with a bigger yard in five-ish years. I want to find out if real estate investment can get us there. I think we'd need to make $3000 a month more than we ...

Today was a day that we all look forward to in real estate. It might not come very often, but when it does, it's a great day. It's called payday! I closed three houses today alone. Below I will walk through the deals ...

I have a young couple with a retriever puppy bombarding me with inquiries. I told them puppies and unfixed dogs would be a no-go for us. They said they don't plan on fixing the dog because they want to breed him (!!)....