Noelle Mastelotto
Moving to a New (Midwest) Market
Hi BP community!My husband, myself and my four pups are selling our house in Austin metro area and looking to move to a new more affordable market. We’ve done a few live in flips and are hoping to get into our first h...
Charles Evans
New House Hacker, Need Tips/Reassurance Please!
Good Morning,So I have always dreamed of getting a duplex as my first house and to house hack to get my foot in the door in real estate investing. My goal was simple: house hack, and after a year browse to hopefully r...
Thomas Seay
San Francisco Bay Area Real Estate Correction
So how much longer can this boom continue around here? I live in Palo Alto, where I have my main residence. I own rental properties in San Mateo, Foster City and East Palo Alto. The one in East Palo Alto I only pur...
Joe Splitrock
House Hack Bubble and Return of the Sub Prime
Yesterday was an interesting day. I was at the gym and overheard a gym member talking to the trainer. He as trying to talk the trainer into buying a house. He was explaining his own house hacking experience and how he...
Chris Jensen
Do Real Estate Agents Shun FSBO Properties?
So I'm genuinely curious about this topic, and I apologize if it's been covered previously. I've been thinking a lot lately about sellers who go the fsbo route but say they are willing to entertain buyers with agents...
Account Closed
Real Industry Needs Reform
I think most people that have given it much thought and aren't agents/brokers themselves realize that the real estate industry is in serious need of reform. Should someone without a college degree be making more mone...
Pedro Gonzalez
Government's Financial Rescue Plan, Will It Energize The Weak Real Estate Market?
The Bush administration developed an effort to confront the worst U.S. financial crisis in decades, describing a plan that could cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars to buy up bad mortgages and other toxic d...
Kelly Sennholz
Where will Californians Live??
A recent post on BiggerPockets indicated the imposition of a new $500 per day fine in California for using potable water for ANYTHING but regular in-house use. No one at all commented on this. This is a serious statem...
William Huston
What is the best things to look for in your first Broker office?
I am a newly licensed real estate agent who has started looking into the real estate brokers around me. So far i have been focusing on the offices the closest to me since the area around me has some of the higher pric...
Evelyn Tilman
HiGHER END Flipping deal.
Being a real estate agent I come across all sort of situations.
I now have a house coming up on the market that is stIll occupied.
Price: $500k
Repairs needed : 60k
ARV: a solid $650000.
Seller said if I find someon...