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Joshua Dorkin (@jrdorkin, Google+) is the founder and CEO of BiggerPockets.Mr. Dorkin's vision for BiggerPockets has helped to propel it into becoming one of the top real estate destinations online. His vision for the site and its future has brought national press attention to both Mr. Dorkin and to BiggerPockets.

Joshua has written 568 article(s) for the BiggerPockets Blog.

Real Estate Interviews

Interview with CPA & Real Estate Investor: Charles Perkins

by Joshua Dorkin | June 2, 2011

Charles Perkins is a real estate investor and CPA located in Seattle, Washington with experience in both residential and commercial investments. In our interview with Charles (29:29 minutes), we get some great tips about topics such as finding a competent CPA, rehabbing, landlording, screening desperate tenants, and buying commercial property. You can also find out [...]

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Real Estate Interviews

Interview with New York Investor: Mark Updegraff

by Joshua Dorkin | May 31, 2011

Here’s another fantastic real estate investor interview (22:52 minutes) with Mark Updegraff, a buy and hold investor based in Rochester, NY, who is focused on his local market as well as parts of Pennsylvania. Mark shares his 4 years of experience and covers topics including working with turn-key investment firms, finding and screening tenants, and [...]

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Real Estate Interviews

Interview with California Investor & Landlord: Michael Zuber

by Joshua Dorkin | May 26, 2011

In this interview with Michael Zuber, a buy and hold investor who is based in San Francisco, but focused in the Fresno and Madera areas of California, we gain some great insight into the mindset of an experienced landlord. Michael shares his 10 years of experience and covers topics including the importance of having a [...]

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Real Estate Interviews

BiggerPockets Interview with Investor Rob Gillespie

by Joshua Dorkin | May 24, 2011

For the second edition of our real estate investor video interview series, we with an interview with Rob Gillespie aka Rob the House Guy. Rob has been investing for 15 years in Ohio and brings a unique perspective with his philosophy on how to become a success in this business. Rob can also be found [...]

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Real Estate Interviews

BiggerPockets Interview with Investor James Vermillion

by Joshua Dorkin | May 19, 2011

We kick off our real estate investor video interview series (thank you Skype!) with an interview with James Vermillion of K&V LLC. James is a rehabber based in Kentucky who is in the process of working on his 2nd and 3rd deals. While he is very early in his career, as you can tell from [...]

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Commentary

Investors Reject Speakers Marketing at Real Estate Club Meetings

by Joshua Dorkin | April 29, 2011

We conducted a non-scientific poll this week via Facebook to determine how investors felt about the speakers at their local real estate club meetings marketing to them, and the results are pretty clear. We asked, “Should real estate investor clubs allow speakers to market their products during meetings?” Updated 5/1/11: We’ve had a total of [...]

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Commentary

Changing the Real Estate Investing Industry One Person at a Time

by Joshua Dorkin | April 22, 2011

Nobody said it would be easy, and it hasn’t been. I remember having conversations with some of my friends in the early days of BiggerPockets, and there was a lot of doubt about creating an online company to serve the real estate investing niche. There were already several established players in the REI online space, [...]

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Real Estate Interviews

Justin Schnettler: Using BiggerPockets to Acquire Over $10 Million in Real Estate in Under 2 Years

by Joshua Dorkin | January 11, 2011

Not many people can say that within two years of starting their real estate investing careers that they built a portfolio of property worth over 8 figures, but Justin Schnettler can. This one time engineer has become an incredibly successful investor and his story is one that we will share with you in this interview. [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Learn How Five Real Estate Investors Did their First Investing Deals

by Joshua Dorkin | December 5, 2010

A few weeks ago I started to experiment with video once again and created a new channel for BiggerPockets on YouTube. The goal was to use this medium to help spread the vision of our site, to educate our members and visitors, and to share useful and entertaining real estate-related videos. My friend Vlad thought [...]

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Financing Real Estate

The Hard Money Loan Funding Process: A Guide for Rehabbers

by Joshua Dorkin | December 2, 2010

You spot a house that you would like to rehab or flip and decide make an offer. You plan on financing through a hard money lender, but haven’t yet done this kind of deal, and wonder what happens after you’ve got the house under contract. Here’s a brief look at the process: All hard money [...]

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New York Real Estate

Starwood Brings Aloft to Harlem: First Major Hotel Development Since 1967

by Joshua Dorkin | October 13, 2010

Although the New York neighborhood of Harlem has experienced a resurgence over the past decade or so, there was always still something missing — but that is about to change. On November 4, Starwood will be opening a boutique Aloft hotel at 2296 Frederick Douglas Boulevard, in the heart of Harlem. The Aloft will be [...]

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Commentary

Bank of America Halts the Sale of Foreclosures in All 50 States

by Joshua Dorkin | October 8, 2010

In another sign of the mass chaos that has crippled the US housing market, the AP is reporting that as of today, BofA has halted all foreclosure sales throughout the United States. While this is great news for many people who are set to lose their homes, some even potentially wrongfully, it is not good [...]

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Blogs

The Top 20 Real Estate Investing Blogs

by Joshua Dorkin | June 28, 2010

Our now famous list of the top 35 real estate blogs from August 2006 has been seriously withered down over the years; some of the blogs simply died out, while others lost focus, or quality. I thought it was high time that we updated this list by creating several sub-lists of top real estate blogs. The first of these is the current one, a list focused on real estate investing blogs.
The Top Real Estate Investing Blogs

To put this list together, we looked at close to 200 different blogs from both real estate investing-related companies and individual real estate investors. Here are a few things of note about the blogs selected:

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Real Estate Marketing

How Not to Lose Real Estate Deals

by Joshua Dorkin | June 13, 2010

I’ve been going back and forth with a member of BiggerPockets today about a deal that he found on our site. He was very excited about the property and despite his best efforts, tried to get in touch with the individual posting it, and failed. Here’s a little video with some advice for all the [...]

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BiggerPockets News

Celebrate The Five Year BiggerPockets Blog Anniversary!

by Joshua Dorkin | March 13, 2010

Time certainly flies, doesn’t it? Today marks five years since I started the BiggerPockets Blog (formerly known as “Real Estate Investing for Real”) with a post that set off a revolution! Ok, actually, the first post on this blog, Real Estate Is a Very Hot Investment, was pretty weak, but like most other blogs experimenting [...]

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