Hey fellow suburban Illinois BPers - 
Not sure if this has been sent/shared previously, but thought it'd be good to recap - Chicago Agent Magazine recently reported that suburban Chicago was ranked the second-hottest...

We own 50 acres of wooded landed in a rural setting. Eventually, we’d like to build a few houses for ourselves and extended family but that will be a lot later. In the meantime, it’s a beautiful plot of land with a ni...

I'm looking at starting a BP meetup in the Barboursville/Huntington area of West Virginia. There are a couple REIAs in the Tri-State area, but none of them are backed by the power of BP and the incredible people that ...

To those who consider themselves very wealthy, is wealth worth what is takes to acquire it?I don't want to become ultra wealthy because I don't want to do what it takes.I love spending time with my wife and being home...

As I was poking around at the relationships between jobs and potential predictors of job losses, I started looking at a mathematical representation of something less quantitative, that we are all familiar with. This s...

I have been reading about attracting private money investors for real estate. I wanted to know if anyone has had success attracting private money. Also, I'm thinking of running an ad for private money and I wanted to ...

I've had two condenser units on two different houses stolen (one was just the copper) in the last few weeks. It's very frustrating as you know, and always seems to happen when the house is for sale.

I've read through...

Hey all, a year ago my wife and I bought our first house (primary residence) and started renting it out on Air-bnb to make some extra income to pay off student debt. Simultaneously, I started listening to bigger pocke...

Hello BP,I am new to REI and running into roadblocks getting finance for my first deal. I just contracted my first deal (a great one I might add) so I have no previous deals to refer to and obviously no credit to fall...

I am brand new to this site.  I started doing some home flipping from 2001 - 2009, then got into buy and hold.I am at a cross roads, so I recently sold some properties, in an effort to have a portfolio of quality over...