Rehabbing

Fixing and Flipping: It’s a Numbers Game

by Marty Boardman | December 15, 2011

You can’t polish a turd. That’s what my Dad said to me. On prom night. Gee, thanks Dad. One thing I’ve learned from being in the fix and flip business is that you may not be able to polish a turd but you can put lipstick on a pig. And in certain cases some extremely [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Take the Emotion Out of Flipping Houses

by Richard Warren | October 3, 2011

One of the biggest obstacles to success as a real estate investor is emotion. It’s part of being human. Imagine you are shopping for a new car. You do your research on the internet, you read reviews in various publications, calculate exactly the highest price you are going to pay and head to the showroom. [...]

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Real Estate Interviews

What is ARV or “After Repair Value”?

by Joshua Dorkin | September 14, 2011

Will Barnard is a real estate rehabber out of Southern California. In our interview with Will (5:48 minutes), we learn what ARV or After Repair Value is, and how a house flipper would go about calculating this value. We also learn about finding comps and why ARV is so important. You can also learn more [...]

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Commercial Real Estate

The Importance of Having a Capital Expense Budget when Buying a Property

by Spencer Cullor | August 31, 2011

One of the biggest mistakes I see investors make when financially evaluating an investment property is that they fail to include a capital expense budget for the property. When acquiring an investment property, it is critical that you have a capital expense budget as well as a recurring replacement reserve factored into the equity you [...]

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Real Estate Interviews

Interview with House Flipper & Real Estate Rehabber: Tom Tarrant

by Joshua Dorkin | June 21, 2011

Tom Tarrant is a real estate rehabber or house flipper, and one of the top real estate investing bloggers out there. In our interview with Tom (30:44 minutes), we get into topics including real estate blogging, building credibility, how your blog can be used to increase dealflow, rehabbing strategies, picking the right house, a unique [...]

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Real Estate Interviews

Interview with Hard Money Lender & Real Estate Investor: Kevin Amolsch

by Joshua Dorkin | June 7, 2011

Kevin Amolsch is a real estate investor and hard money lender located in the Denver, Colorado area. In our interview with Kevin (26:54 minutes), we get some great tips about topics such as using owner financing, lease options, wholesaling, building a portfolio, the life of a landlord, tenant screening, building wealth, and hard money loans. [...]

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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

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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Real Estate

Short Sales: The Times, They Are A-Changin

by Bill & Jackie Patterson | March 23, 2011

As Bob Dylan so famously said…… “The times, they are a-changin” Short sales, REOs and real estate in general are constantly changing, and to be successful, we all know that it’s important to stay current with changing rules, trends, markets and exit strategies. What works today, may not work tomorrow. We had been working on [...]

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Flipping Houses

Controlling (And Conquering) Your Appraisals

by J Scott | January 19, 2011

I’ve addressed this topic several times in the forums, and much of this post is taken from an old forum post I wrote, but this subject is important enough to rehabbers and other investors that I wanted to make sure it was captured here on the blog… One of the biggest areas where rehabbers and [...]

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Flipping Houses

5 Best Areas to Add HUGE Value on your Flips

by Ryan Moeller | November 9, 2010

When it comes to flips, the uglier the property you find, the better the chances are you’ll make some money. Ugly houses not only scare off competition but the upside potential is typically better. Rehabbers are problem solvers – ugly becomes attractive, unlivable becomes desirable and repairs result in added value. There are 5 areas that [...]

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Real Estate Investing

The Best and Worst Strategies for New Real Estate Investors

by Jason Hanson | October 31, 2010

Most likely, when you’re first starting out as a new real estate investor you have very little money. I know I did. You probably have just enough money to do some marketing (such as direct mail or bandit signs) but there isn’t much to spare. Well… if you’re new and short on funds, then there [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Why & How New Investors Should Focus on Specific Target Markets

by Ryan Moeller | July 10, 2010

One thing I notice about the most successful investors is that they focus. They focus on one strategy, focus in specific areas of a market and become a master. This is extremely important, especially for beginners; choosing 2-3 zip codes or neighborhoods are a great Unfortunately most beginners are open to any kind of strategy and [...]

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Real Estate Investing

Getting Started in Real Estate: Series Conclusion

by Peter Giardini | July 2, 2010

You may recall that I started this series by posing the “Million” dollar question… and that question was… As a new real estate investor what strategy should I focus on to get started? Over these past several weeks I have attempted to answer that question and have provided what I hope is useful insight to [...]

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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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