Hello all! My name is Avegail. I'm from Elizabeth, New Jersey. I am just getting started in real estate investing and am interested in partnering up with anyone who is buying and managing small rental properties. As a...

***UPDATE 11/19/13: Forbes heard us loud and clear - and they said they were getting overwhelmed with messages from us and we didn't need to vote anymore! So .. mission accomplished! You can ignore the rest of this...

Howdy BP Family, I feel as though I have gained a year of experience worth of being an AirBnB host in a week. For over a year I have been working on building a garage apartment in my backyard in the Houston Heights n...

I am looking at adding a second computer.

Locally they are dumping off remaining inventory with Windows 7 to make way for new computers with Windows 8.The windows 7 has very powerful processor,hard drive,and ram numb...

I think we would all agree that personal finance is something that all of our youth should be taught, but it's not getting done on a consistent basis.  In your opinion, whose job is it to teach teenagers (high school ...

I am new to Bigger Pockets but not to real estate. I have been in the buy hold game for over 20 years. I can honestly say I have made about every mistake humanly possible in real estate but I have always been good at ...

Looking to buy my first STR and having trouble finding one that projects to make a COC return worth investing in.  The high sale prices and subsequent mortgage payments kill the net profits.  Raising the rental rate w...

How do you guys keep track of your portfolio financials? Cash flow per unit, how much is left on mortgage per unit, etc. Lay everything out in Excel or do you use an app? 

We have 9 doors and are needing to start automating our workload. We have been doing MTR for the last 3 years and realize with recent acquisitions we are needing to make a change. What is your wisdom in this?

Hey BP,Fortunately we have not had any vacancies in several months, but the other day one of our tenants who is getting relocated by the Army said that they would be moving. So we went to list the unit to our website ...