Nicholas Fogal
Sell or Rent
Hey everyone! I hope this is the right category for this post. I currently own and have owned a home in Stockton, California since 2019. I have a 2.625% interest rate and the home is in a desirable, established neig...
Ben Stanley
House hacking when you currently rent?
I'm looking at house hacking a duplex or the like for my first investment property and looking for some advise on timing. I signed a 1 year lease last month so kinda stuck in that until fall 2025 (unless I broke lease...
David Hite
Pro Forma income vs Actual Income - Property Price
Good morning!Wanted to get your input on this.Been screening multi-family and commercial real estate opportunities. One thing I have noticed is the asking price with it's cap rate, is almost always priced out by the ...
Austin Carr
Denver Duplex
I want to buy a duplex in Denver so bad!! Live in one side and rent the other side out. I figured I could get a FHA 203k loan or something with only 3.5% down from what I've read and put like 5-7k down. But how do i...
Brandie Lyons
New Investor from the Houston, Texas Area
Hi,My name Is Brandie. I'm a full-time worker, mother and Dance Director of a competitive majorette team. I'm excited to get started. I have so many goals for myself in Real Estate so I can have financial freedom. My ...
JR Mack
Graduating analysis paralysis
Hello, I'm new here. I've done a lot of research and even worked on running numbers for certain options (just as an exercise), but I'm now looking forward to jumping in. I'm looking at small multifamiles and won't hav...
Shiloh Lundahl
Rich Dad Poor Dad’s investing principles - GOOD or BAD?
Many people on BiggerPockets (at least on the podcasts) have credited their start to investing in real estate to reading Robert Kiyosaki’s book Rich Dad Poor Dad; myself included. However, there are also some investor...
Joe Grebe
Basic Budget Question
This is the most basic budget question. My wife and I use Mint.com to track our finances and we just finished sitting down and looking at our spending for the year. This gives a really good place to start for a budg...
Emilio Ramirez
Who buys Multi Families w/ 6% Cap Rates
I've been looking at multifamily properties on MLS, backpages, loopnet, etc and applying the 50%/2% rule to them. I've also been looking at the cap rate, cash on cash return, IRR and NPV. On the surface, none of thes...
Tyler W.
WWYD? $100k student loan debt, no assets or savings, no full time job.
Say someone has tons of student loan debt, no savings, only asset being a 10 year old car worth $3,000, damaged credit due to some student loans in collections because salaries didn't match debt over time and couldn't...