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Hey everyone, I am new to real estate investing. I am coming across a dilemma at the moment, I am having a difficult time figuring out were to start. When I say where to start I mean - what is my first step! I have re...
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My wife and I are just starting out as Real Estate Investors and are looking for our first deal. Trying to get creative with our financing we ended up selling our house. However thinking that we should get settled f...
I bought a house last summer that I'm living in while fixing up. I plan on taking advantage of the 250k tax exclusion of living in a personal property once it sells. I would love to rent out a spare bedroom but as I...
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I'll try to get to the point.I use to work for an investor when I was younger. Ever since then I've wanted to get into real estate. I never acted because I also wanted to become a police officer. I focused most of my ...
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At this point I'm contributing 6% of my pay and getting 3% match by my employer. That's the max they will do.
The way I look at it, the company match basically protects my contribution from inflation, and any fund i...
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If you were to make $20K on a real estate transaction would you use it to pay down existing debt such as a car loan or credit card debt, reinvest it into another deal, or a combination of both?
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It's true that most of us are seeing the golden nuggets within each market we dare market to these days while wholesaling. But, have you ever asked yourself why you are focusing only on wholesaling, and not buy and ho...
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I'm just going to come out with it: I see all of these investors talking about how they refinanced a property to essentially cash out and then get their money back to reinvest in another property. Can somebody explain...
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How do you get private financing if you have never done a deal before? As a beginner, is it possible to get private financing? Or, would it be better to use a bank to finance a home and the rehab to do a flip ?
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Hi BP community! My name is Spencer Lulling and I am a 23 year-old living in Fort Wayne, Indiana. I am currently earning a decent salary as a Product Manager & saving as much as possible. I love the challenge of m...