Are a you newbie? Are you confused by the title of this article? Here’s the thing—seasoned investors on BiggerPockets like Jeff Brown, Brandon Turner, J Scott, or Brian Burke are n...

A friend who happens to also be a business partner in one of my non-real estate ventures reached out this week with a question. He does this from time to time, seeing as I am such a big shot rea...

Is it wise for investors to buy cheap properties or those in bad areas? Learn why you might want to think twice before making these kinds of investments.

I am once more sitting on a raised deck in a rental home in Sandusky, OH on Lake Erie. I wrote about this place a month ago or so. At that time, Patrisha surprised me with a 2-day getaway (

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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