So I had lunch with a friend of mine. He is an attorney. He’s a young guy who’s been in practice for about four years now. Let’s call him Max. I was introduced to Max a few years ago by a...

You hear bells, but you don’t know where they are… There’s an old Russian proverb that my wise mother used to tell me quite often. What it aims to describe is a feeling of being ...

Some of you may have noticed my relative absence from this blog in the past month and a half. Indeed, I’ve been busy. Buying a home to live in, rehabbing it, and ...

This can really be done. This isn’t just some fictional “if I could only…” business plan, such as my good friend Brandon Turner likes to throw at you (and that you eat up!). This was a tr...

There’s an old Russian saying that goes something like this: When two men argue, one is necessarily a fool, and the other is an ass! The moral: While the fool argues about...

I recently saw an article on the blog entitled, “Living Frugally vs. Spending on What Matters...

Most investors are dumb! Notice, I didn’t say stupid — I said dumb. The difference is that while stupid people don’t know how to think, the dumb — while quite capable of rationale thought...

Although vaguely, I do still remember the feeling confusion when I first started in real estate. I like to describe what this felt like with an image. ...

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Almost nothing is what it seems in real estate. This is nowhere more apparent than in income-producing real estate. The entire premise of rentals is not what it s...

I’ve finally, after about 4 or 5 years, formulated in my own mind what BiggerPockets is. I think it’s in many ways a microcosm of this thing we call life, and I’ve arrived at a simple descriptio...

We talk about no money down rather chivalrously, don’t we? I mean, there is this guy I know — I think his name is Brandon something (wears the same shirt every da...