Picked up a four-plex for my first hold. It's pretty rough, C neighborhood at best. Two lower units wrecked, one vacant one occupied. Two upper units are perfect with great tenants.

So, tenants in unit 1 are selling...

We have had a house listed with a realtor.  We started at $254 looking for an owner financed deal but ended up getting the house under contract at $227 with traditional financing.    The buyer has not been able to sec...

How's it going Bigger Pockets? I was wondering if anyone has used the REIPro software by Chris Goff? I'm thinking about using it to help my wholesaling journey. I haven't found any reviews anywhere, so any reviews wou...

I have heard from people on these boards that I can expect the operating expenses of the house I purchase to rent out would be about 50% of what I can get for it monthly. I could be misunderstanding it, but how is th...

I just graduated and got a job as a structural engineer (starting this month). I accepted a salary offer of about 70k a year with a 401k match plan available. However, I want to invest aggressively in real estate. Spe...

I'm looking to see if we could compile a list of the top 5 mistakes made by landlords. I'll throw out a few and hopefully we can come to some kind of consensus.

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I have this Subject to off market deal in Houston, tx: Seller's Motivation: Needs to move to smaller house close to work place.ARV: $185,000Repair: $5,000pending Mortgage: $135,000Seller currently lives in property an...

I just left this message below in reply to a forum post recently.  I thought I would share it with all here to document my path and to inspire others to follow a similar path and stay away from late night guru garbage...