BiggerPockets Founder's Blog

We've made a few improvements to the site today.  Most of these are for administrative purposes, but the notable changes that you'll notice include:

•  Groups Home Page is Now Sortable -Our Groups page is currently sorted by the most recently updated group.  To help members better navigate the groups, we've added two new sorting options: Most Popular Groups and Alphabetical List of Groups.
• Forums Posts are now Searchable by Poster - Several members made suggestions to improve the forum search options on the site and we've obliged.  Now, in our Advanced Forum Search, members can search for forum posts by keyword and author.  The advanced search link can be found at the top left of all forum pages (next to the forum rules), and gives much more sophisticated search options than the basic forum search.

Today BiggerPockets launched two new applications, our Events system and our PRO Account upgrades!

Events

 The events system is an events calendar application, where members can see events, classes, seminars, social events, etc. and choose to attend.  Only Pro members can create an event, but any member can see or attend events.

BiggerPockets Pro Accounts

 Our PRO Accounts gives members the ability to upgrade their account to get many value added features including:

• See who is visiting your profile, blog, and property listings
• Join as many groups as you'd like
• Send Private Messages to any member
• Increase your colleague requests from 10 to 25 at a time
• 1 Free press release per month
• Enhanced forum signature
• Ability to show your profile contact info to ALL VISITORS
• Show your property listings on your company's profile
• Post events on the events calendar
• Get extra exposure for your profile on the Networking page