After speaking with several real estate professionals, and one in particular, I’ve collected a few controversial ideas and beliefs. I don’t have enough experience to determine whether or not these are accurate assess...

With a professional career in real estate investment and management in the small investor space, I have had the privilege to witness many pivots to the industry.  I have seen economic busts and impacts.  I currently m...

The first record I can find in my digitital footprint about BP was an email my wife sent to me with a blog post on here about short sales in 2009.  I think I may have come across the site here and there occasionally, ...

Hi all.Brief history:I've been a Realtor for over a year with the same company, however I became interested by first being a real estate investor.  I was the first agent with this RE company and joined because the own...

Hello everyone,I'm considering pursuing a career as a real estate agent, and would like to have existing agents chime in if you could! I've read many books and watched countless videos on the experiences and challenge...

Anybody have any info on starting out through a franchise. I was looking into the company we buy ugly houses and they have a franchise for real estate investing. Anybody ever work with them or know if a franchise is a...

I have been looking at spec building since the early summer and cannot seem to find the same level or amount of risk associated as with fix and flips.  It seems that because nearly all of the costs are known well in a...

Hey All,I have a background in Civil Engineering working for around 40 years doing land development, floodplains, and waste management work, among other things. I stopped for a while to do life coaching and energy wor...

Hi Bigger Pockets,My name is Kyle. I am going to be a real estate developer and am having trouble getting started. I would really appreciate insight from anyone who has had success in real estate development.Some spec...

Hello -First post here and a newbie when it comes to commercial real estate development! Wanted to get some input/thoughts on how to attract national tenants for a build to suit project or ground lease.We own a highly...