Hi All,So I've always had a pretty solid credit score and thus never had to develop a skill set to improve my fico score other than paying things off and making regular payments.  My wife, however, is a different stor...

I feel like I have seen many questions about self-managing properties vs. hiring a management company. Here is a little something we have realized after ten years of REI. When we started out we wanted to maximize our ...

Greetings dear Owner Occupants of residential multi-family properties, or as Brandon diligently popularized, put "House Hackers".This topic aims to answer the question on how to most easily manage utilities when you a...

Hi BiggerPockets Community!My name is Martin and I working towards purchasing my first rental property. I am based in NJ, but am targeting the South Bend, IN area for my first rental (primarily interested in long term...

Active Versus Passive Real Estate Investing – Which One Is Right For You?Did you know that you could invest in real estate without the headaches of tenants, toilets, and termites? It’s true – you can get all the benef...

Two years ago I started this journey of educating myself to prepare for out of state real estate investing (I'm near my 4th closed property via Turnkey in Indianapolis...within weeks of that).Now I'm formulating my pl...

I am thinking about signing up with Open Letter Marketing company to do mailers for me.  They have given me access to listsource to narrow down my mailing area based on my criteria.  I have never done a direct marketi...

Seasonality in the Short-Term Rental Florida Market remains a consistent phenomenon with minor variations each year. Notably, last year saw an unusual surge in October, which traditionally had been one of the slower m...

I always get a lot of questions about how to handle the money so I'd like to go over a few of the basics.
- Touching the Money
Sometimes when people hear the kind of interest I pay they will get so excited about loa...

It's likely I conceived the most horrendous financial plan many of you have seen in a long time, so if anyone would like to save me from my ignorance I would be more than indebted to you. In short I would like to take...