BiggerPockets

BiggerPockets.com — Apr 22, 2010 — BiggerPockets has reached the big Five-O! 50 thousand members and growing rapidly throughout the U.S. and dozens of other countries.

"This is an exciting time for BiggerPockets," says CEO and founder Joshua Dorkin. "There is a lot of competition for people's attention and time on the web, so when 50,000 members give us a vote of confidence, it shows that we are accomplishing our goal of serving the needs of our audience and that we’ve truly become one of the premier real estate investing platforms on the web."

The formula for BiggerPockets.com success, says Dorkin, is pretty simple in some ways: To cater to the interests of real estate professionals, investors, consumers and those just plain curious about how the world of real estate works.

The site offers tools to facilitate deal making, networking, education, marketing, and other transactional activities in the real estate realm.

"As happy as we are that we have reached this important milestone of 50,000 members, we are not content," Dorkin says. "We are always working on new, innovative products to bring to our extended BiggerPockets family. In the very near future, we will be making some very exciting announcements that will rock the real estate world. Fifty thousand members is not an end point for us; it's a starting point."

BiggerPockets is a Denver based company, and a growing number of prominent news organizations and websites have turned to BiggerPockets for the expert advice it can offer. BiggerPockets has been featured by the following news organizations and websites: The New York Times, CBS News Radio, ABC News Radio, The Los Angeles Times, The Denver Post, Long Island Newsday, USA Today, US News & World Report, Chicago Tribune, MSN Money, Reuters, Fox Business, and Google News.