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Hey guys,
I'm 26 years old and from rural Kansas. I grew up on a large family farm that I still have ties to this day. I now work as an consultant to other farmers assisting them in production. Now that you know a li...
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Hi my name is Manny Ramirez ( No sorry not the famous baseball player). But now the Beginner Real Estate Investor. I have no experience yet. But I do tend to get started real soon.
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Hi everyone,My name is Chad Adams, I'm brand new to real estate investing. My day job is creating custom software for small to medium sized businesses.I've always loved real estate and considered investing several ti...
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So Hi BP members,
Came across the podcast first which led me to this Awesome site. I'm 30 yrs old, married almost 9 yrs now, and I have 1 sfh rental under my belt as of 4 months ago that was my primary reside...
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I am Bharat Medasani and I work as a researcher in physics. I am new to real estate investing and I am mainly interested in rental investments. I wish to learn more about rental investments and network with like min...
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I know there are many companies offering short sale negotiations for residential.Does anyone know of anybody who specializes in commercial short sale negotiations?
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Hello everybody,My name is Pierce, and I'm a newer member of BiggerPockets. I am an (aspiring) buy-and-hold real estate investor, and I'm most interested in the snowball effect of growing a portfolio of cash-flowing p...
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Hey everybody. Making a move to do a different city/state soon for new job and contemplating looking at buying a duplex/triplex my family and I could also live in for the first year until we get more familiar with th...
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This year, the company I was working for was acquired. As a part of the acquisition, all my stock options were accelerated and paid out as cash through payroll. This payment will leave me with about $600,000 in W-2 ...
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All,I hope you are doing great.I have an apartment 2bed/1 bath that I own and I am not sure if I should rent it out as a short-term rental/airbnb or long term. I heard the tax rates for short-term rentals are higher a...