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Hi everybody,I currently rent and want to start my real estate journey with a duplex. I'm a little concerned with the current high interest rates and property taxes (Texas). How do you minimize these factors? I'm a ...
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Anybody uses the Jack Bosch method of making offer only after the initial contact? Since I am new to this and experimenting with the Land Geek method, I wonder how many potential sellers I discourage from calling me b...
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Hello everyone! Just a bit of backstory here: Around this time last year i began my journey into REI with the hopes and aspirations of any newbie in the game. MY first plan was to gain capital by wholesaling and then ...
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Hey BP,
For those that don't know me, my name is Antonio. I live in Broward County FL and I have the money ready to start up wholesaling. I've had the money ready for about a week now, I guess I've just been procras...
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Hello BiggerPockets Friends,I am sitting at my computer bored and figured I would start this thread to see what other people's experiences have been with section 8, mainly because I see alot of people on here give new...
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Hi can you guys help me out with this question?
What’s the proper way to verify current rents when analyzing a rental property for purchase?
I asked the owner for a copy of the leases, he said he can’t give those to ...
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Hey all,My name is Jack Jones and I am 22 yeas old and was in the army from May 2013-May 2017. I have just gotten settled back in my hometown of Vancouver , Washington and my baby boy was born on June 23rd :). So life...
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Hey there,I've made an offer on property from 1959 and it was accepted.Now I realize there is an underground storage tank- that was used either for oil or fuel, and I don't know what to do.I understood from my agent...
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Hello guys.
I do have enough cash to make down payment for properties, but I am not too sure how profitable investing RE in Boston.
Probably I am wrong, but it looks really hard to find a property on...
I have recently submitted an offer on a bank owned (Bank of America) property. It has been over a month and I have still not heard anything back from the bank. Should i move on? I'm new to this process and don't hav...