How to Use the DISC Profile to Communicate Effectively in Business
You may have heard about the DISC profile—but what exactly is this personality test? Get insight into each of the DISC personas and learn how gearing your communications with each…
Real Estate Business Management
Business Management can often be similar across many industries and types of enterprises. Successful real estate investors treat their investments like a business and run them professionally. This section of the BiggerPockets Blog contains articles that can help journeyman investors systematize and professionally run their real estate businesses. Topics include hiring, management, business policy, and scaling. These articles are written by some of the best investors in the business, and in regions throughout the country.
These 15 Tech Tools Will Supercharge Your Vacation Rental Business
To run a profitable short-term rental business, you don't just need to be able to find great properties and negotiate deals, but you also need to create great photos and…
How to Create $50,000 in Passive Income With 14 Doors
It's possible to replace your income with fewer doors than it takes the typical real estate investor. It involves using various financing methods and strategies. Not everyone will take this…
8 Pros & Cons of Including Utilities With Rent for Your Investment Properties
As landlords, we all want to maximize our cash flow. One way to do this is by passing off utility costs to tenants. But is this always the best idea?…
How to Buy a Home Without Being an Active Investor
Purchasing a property for yourself is a life-changing investment, as is buying investment property to create passive income. And you can do either (or both) sooner and for less money…
3 Steps to Design & Print Your Own Custom Planner for Under $10
Tired of planners that promise productivity and organization, but turn out to be similar versions of the same old thing? Everyone works differently—so why shouldn't your planner be unique like…
How Vacation Rentals Are Transforming the Hospitality Business
Short-term rentals are gaining in popularity at a staggering rate. So, of course, investor interest in them is also at an all-time high. From mom-and-pops on up to large-scale resort…
How to Build Your Buy and Hold Dream Team
Buy and hold real estate is a long game—one that requires long-term planning and builds long-term wealth. To truly play the long game with buy and hold real estate, you need…
Know Your Real Estate Partnerships: General and Limited Partnerships Explained
Do you need a legal partnership or LLC for your real estate investing business? Which kind is best for asset protection? Here I'll explain the smartest option for most investors…
The Pros and Cons of Becoming a Hard Money Lender
Should you become a hard money lender? When most people think of real estate investing, they think of direct investing like fix and flips and buy and holds. But there…
6 Simple Ways to Cut Costs in Your Real Estate Business
Just because you’re dealing with some of the most expensive assets in the world doesn’t mean you have to overspend in the process. Real estate can demand low overhead and…
Partnering With a Friend: Yeah or Nah?
Partnering up can be a great thing in real estate. You can partner with others for a short time on specific deals. Or you can align investments with others for…
What 9 Pro Real Estate Investors Wish They’d Known When Starting Out
Real estate comes with a risk: mistakes are expensive, because properties are expensive. But you don’t have to learn by making your own mistakes—learn from other investors’ expensive mistakes instead!…
