Want to Cover Your Living Expenses With Passive Income? Here’s What You Should Know.
As we have continued to build and scale our business, I have been amazed at the number of people from within our market (and all over the United States) who…
Personal Development & Goals
Real estate investing is a continual learning process. Mistakes and lessons learned characterize almost every investor's career. The great thing about BiggerPockets is that it allows you to learn from the triumphs and failures of other investors around the country. Spending the time to learn from others' experience can significantly speed up your real estate portfolio growth and help you to avoid setbacks. This section of the BiggerPockets Blog is dedicated to those types of posts that help investors become successful in real estate and avoid mistakes that others have made in the past. You can read up on more similar stories and discussions in our Real Estate Success Stories Forum.
Want to Lose All Your Money & Cry Yourself to Sleep? Make These 4 Newbie Mistakes!
You know that I love you, right? Maybe not the “I want to have your baby” kind of love, but the “I’m about to yell at you, and I’m doing…
Real Life Case Study: How One Couple Transitioned From Earned to Passive Income
The phone rang, and before I knew it, I was grinning ear to ear. It was my favorite type of phone call. A couple we have been working with since…
4 Surefire Signs Your Property Investment Deal is a Fraud
There are con men, and then there are fraudsters — the former is a definite criminal, relatively easy to see behind bars if he’s caught. The latter, however, can blatantly…
Ready to Quit Your Job? STOP! Here’s Why That’s the Worst Idea for New Investors.
Week in and week out, thousands and thousands of would-be real estate investors flock to BiggerPockets with a singular vision: “I want enough passive income from real estate investing to…
3 Signs You’re Ready to Make the Jump to Full-Time Investor (& 3 Tips for Succeeding at it!)
Many real estate investors debate on whether or not they want to remain a part-time investor or allow it to become a full-time endeavor. After all, some investors have day…
Why the Small, Seemingly Insignificant Actions You Perform Daily Are VITAL to Your Success
“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines practiced every day.” –Jim Rohn Many new investors believe that success in real estate is all about making a few good…
Why the Happiest, Most Successful People Say “No” to Almost Everything
What is the difference between successful and average? Why do successful people seem more relaxed and less stressed, and yet they accomplish so much more? All too often we believe…
5 Invaluable Lessons I Learned From My Worst Real Estate Deal Disaster
Last week I told a happy-go lucky, sunshine-and-puppies story about real estate success in multifamily investing. Unfortunately, not all such stories have happy endings. So this week we will embark down…
Multifamily Myths: Why Newbies Think Multifamily is Easy to Buy & Finance
Last year I wanted to refinance some of my small rental properties. Four properties, a hundred grand here, two hundred grand there… but you would have thought that I was…
From Listing to Closing: The Step-by-Step Process I Used to Buy a 32-Unit Apartment
I have often found that one of the best ways to learn is to look at a concrete case study. Hopefully, a step-by-step retelling of how we recently purchased a…
One Weird Trick to Get the Very Best Absentee Owner Leads
For many of us, inventory is starting to drop, and good deals are becoming harder to come by. But I am about to share with you one trick to help…
6 Empowering Strategies to Conquer a Paralyzing Fear of Failure
According to Statistic Brain Research Institute, fear has a strong hold on the US population. Things people fear that will never take place …………………………………….……..60% Things people fear that happened in…
