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…
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.
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!…
Warren Buffett’s Shocking Advice: How to Avoid the Next Real Estate Tsunami
Animals can seemingly sense a tsunami coming and react accordingly. Humans cannot. What does this have to do with real estate investing? And how does it relate to Warren Buffett's…
How to Use Partnerships to Move Your Real Estate Business Ahead Faster & Further
Ever heard you should focus on your strengths and outsource those tasks you're not so good at? Learn how a partnership can superpower your business here!
8 Top Tips to Take Advantage of New Tax Reform for 2019
Do you want to take advantage of all the tax savings that are available to real estate investors under the new tax reform? As a tax advisor by day and…
How to Scale Your Investment Portfolio With Turnkey Properties
What if you're not interested in learning how to go through the entire acquisition process, how to renovate a house, and how to manage the properties yourself? In this case,…
Visualizing Cash Flow: How to Accurately Budget Expenses
What does cash flow look like? Here's what a rental property's cash flow looks like—plus what all of us can learn from it for our personal budgeting!
When Buying on Terms Pays Off Big Time (Almost $200K!)
How is it possible to create $187,800 of wealth on a home selling for $619,000? I know what the naysayers are thinking—it’s not. But if you structure a deal appropriately,…
Sorry, But Aggressive Negotiations Will Get You Nowhere in Real Estate: Here’s Why
When I do business, I want to build long-term relationships that will make me successful for many years to come. I want to win the war, not squeeze out a…
3 Reasons NOT to Buy an LLC Online
Have you encountered online businesses offering to form an LLC for you at an extremely discounted price? Tons of sites peddle extremely cheap (or even free) articles of incorporation or…
How to Organize Your Real Estate Documents
If you’re investing in real estate, you’re going to be filling out and receiving dozens of real estate documents. Keeping these documents safe, available, and organized is imperative if you…
4 Reasons DIY is Dead (An Argument for Outsourcing Everything)
People think outsourcing is a luxury only available to large operations. But the truth is that outsourcing early makes you money because it buys you time.
How to Maximize Your Write-Offs of Travel Expenses
Contrary to popular belief, the IRS is not as terrible as one may think. A lot of loopholes are written into the tax code that taxpayers are invited to use.…
