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BiggerPockets.com Turns 7 – Happy Birthday!

by Joshua Dorkin | October 22, 2011

On October 22, 2004, while teaching high school in Los Angeles and worrying about my own personal real estate investments, I created BiggerPockets. The seven years that have passed since then, have seen what was intended to be a resource for my own personal needs, turn into the greatest platform online for real estate investors [...]

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Real Estate Interviews

Turn-Key Property Investing: An Interview with Ken Corsini

by Joshua Dorkin | June 29, 2011

Ken Corsini is a real estate investor and founder of Georgia Residential Partners, a Turn-Key property investment firm. In our interview with Ken (12:56 minutes), we get into topics including why to get into turn-key properties, who might consider these investments, the benefits and negatives of a turn-key property investment, what to expect with these [...]

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Interview with Real Estate Investor: John Fedro on Mobile Homes

by Joshua Dorkin | June 18, 2011

John Fedro is a mobile home real estate investor and coach. In our interview with John (25:16 minutes), we get into topics such as starting out in mobile homes, why you need to know as many real estate strategies as possible, why “secrets” won’t make or break your business, a day in the life of [...]

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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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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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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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Changing the Real Estate Investing Industry One Person at a Time

by Joshua Dorkin | April 22, 2011
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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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Celebrate The Five Year BiggerPockets Blog Anniversary!

by Joshua Dorkin | March 13, 2010
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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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How to Save More Time With Social Networking for Real Estate with Flock

by J. Lamar Ferren | September 13, 2009

FlockOne of the biggest complaints I hear about Social Networking is that it takes up too much time. Last week I posted a blog called, “Are You Wasting Time With Social Networking For Real Estate” . The focus was to point out key factors within your social networking habits that may be a waste of your time and how you can be more productive with it by building genuine relationships.

In this Vlog Post (Video Blog) I’d like to focus on helping you save more time with social networking, while continuing to be more productive in your business and building those relationships.

Watch the video below and see 6 Key benefits to using this Social Web Browser for your business. The name of this social web browser is called Flock:

Flock focuses on the key areas of social networking, such as:

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BiggerPockets Events and BiggerPockets Pro are now Live

by Joshua Dorkin | March 15, 2009

BiggerPockets.com launched two great new features to the site today: Events & BiggerPockets Pro Real Estate Events The events system is an events calendar application, where members can find out about and choose to attend real estate auctions, classes, seminars, conferences, open houses, real estate club meetings, social events, webinars, etc. When a member chooses [...]

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30 Thousand Members and Counting! BiggerPockets.com Reaches Social Networking Milestone.

by Joshua Dorkin | March 5, 2009

BiggerPockets has reached yet another exciting milestone in its continued development as the nation’s premier real estate social networking website, 30,000 Members! With a limited amount of time in the day and attention spans shrinking, it is becoming harder and harder to join every social network out there. As such, only the best thrive! We’ve [...]

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Responds to BiggerPockets Article About National GO Zone

by Joshua Dorkin | February 12, 2009

On Monday, January 12, 2009, BiggerPockets.com’s own Richard Warren wrote a compelling piece here on the Real Estate Dispatch called A National GO Zone?, proposing a solution to the nations housing crisis. At a time when housing is one of the most critical issues in the national debate, I’m excited to let our readers know [...]

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BiggerPockets.com Featured in Today’s Denver Post

by Joshua Dorkin | February 8, 2009

As proof that we continue to provide a needed service to the online real estate space, the press has once again come to write about our site. BiggerPockets.com got a great featured writeup in today’s (Sunday) Denver Post (with a nice photo of yours truly!) that we hope you’ll check out: Real estate investors at [...]

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BiggerPockets Launches Real Estate Company Index: Free Profiles for Real Estate Companies

by Joshua Dorkin | January 12, 2009

One of the nice things about BiggerPockets, in my opinion, is that we try to focus on people interacting with one another. We don’t allow members to travel the site using a company avatar because it is just plain impersonal. The internet is impersonal enough, and we’re working very hard to change that, particularly in [...]

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The BiggerPockets Real Estate Show (sort of): Episode 2

by Joshua Dorkin | December 21, 2008

Exploring a Future Foreclosure Bailout and the Bernard Madoff Ponzi Scheme The second episode of the BiggerPockets.com Real Estate Show features the show’s hosts, Joshua Dorkin (founder of BiggerPockets and yours truly) and Charles Feldman (journalist extraordinaire) covering such topics as a possible future housing bailout, coping with the current housing crisis, Bernard Madoff’s $50 [...]

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