Back in January, 2006, I announced that we’d soon be opening our BiggerPockets Real Estate Investing Store. Like Windows Vista, our launch is a bit late, but it is here, nonetheless.

While we’re opening the store unofficially (no grand opening yet) with only two (2) products, we are open for business! In opening this [...]

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I was curious about what some of the most popular real estate websites were and went to Del.icio.us to find out. The reason I choose de.icio.us instead of Google for results is that many people (myself included) feel that it gives better results than the monster of search.
Some of the Top 7 Real Estate [...]

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Hello Everyone. We wanted to give you an update on a few exciting new things going on here at BiggerPockets®!
New Website Features

Meet the Investor
We’ve begun to interview investors in an attempt to help others learn more about what it takes to be successful. Have a look. Many of our blog readers [...]

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Thanks to the MapleLeaf 2.0 blog, I learned about a cool new site in Toronto called Virtual City. Basically a web 2.0 (I hat that term) mashup, the site uses Google Maps and some cool Ajax coding to let you take a tour of Toronto visually. Similar to Amazon’s A9Search, it looks like [...]

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Let start with the Old.
In the UK, a 102 Year old man was just granted a 25 year mortgage on a property! I have to say that that is one determined real estate investor!
Everyone is talking about the environment and green living today, right?
The big environmental controversy lately has been about John Edwards and [...]

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Ever heard of a guy named Sam Zell?
Don’t worry, outside Chicago many folks don’t know much abot this Billionaire. I thought I might bring some hope to all the newbie real estate investor / baseball fans out there with this little piece of news:
The Tribune Company Plans to Sell the Chicago Cubs before [...]

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After working hard for the past few days, I decided to take a day off and check out the wonderous city of Boulder, Colorado. I can definitely see why people move there and never leave . . .

The Boulder Foothills

In the foothills overlooking to Continental Divide

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