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BlogArrowAuthorArrowScott Trench

Scott Trench

Expertise: Real Estate News & Commentary, Real Estate Investing Basics, Mortgages & Creative Financing, Personal Finance, Personal Development
73 Articles Written
Scott Trench is the CEO and President of BiggerPockets. Scott has dedicated his career to helping ordinary Americans build wealth in part through real estate investing. Since joining BiggerPockets in 2014, Scott has authored the bestselling wealth-building book Set for Life and joined Mindy Jensen as co-host of the BiggerPockets Money Podcast.

Experience
Scott is an active real estate investor in the Denver market, currently managing a private portfolio of about $1.5M and holds his real estate license as a Colorado broker.

He is a perpetual student of personal finance, real estate investing, sales, business, and personal development. With this knowledge, Scott stays active in the BiggerPockets Forums and has contributed hundreds of articles, market analyses, and files to BiggerPockets.

He hopes this will provide other investors the tools they need to repeat his results in just 3-5 years, giving them the option to go anywhere they want in the world, work any job, start any business, or finish out the journey to financial independence and retire young.

In addition to real estate, Scott enjoys skiing, rugby, craft beers, and terrible punny jokes.

Press
Scott has contributed to several personal finance blogs and podcasts, along with traditional news outlets including Time, CNBC, and NBC. Find out more about his story at JoeFairless.com, MadFientist, and ChooseFI.

Education
Scott graduated from Vanderbilt University with degrees in Economics and History, Corporate Strategy, and Finance.

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Personal Finance Nov 10, 2018

Millennials Are Poised to Be the Wealthiest Generation Yet: Here’s Why

By Scott Trench

If you take a look around, there are some mixed reviews of Millennial financial habits all over the web. Some studies suggest that Millennials 

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Personal Finance Sep 28, 2018

Are Your Children Stopping You From Achieving Financial Freedom?

By Scott Trench

Are your children the reason that you can’t afford to save and invest for financial freedom—or the reason you can’t afford not to? I usually write with a very specific audience i...

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Real Estate News & Commentary Sep 19, 2018

An Analysis of Rental Market Trends: Here’s How Typical BiggerPockets Investors May Be Impacted in a Recession

By Scott Trench

It seems that every week, there is a new thread topping the BiggerPockets forums that discusses the probability (inevitability?) that we’re nea...

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Personal Finance Aug 19, 2018

Want to Retire Early? Sorry, But Much of Your Net Worth May Not Help

By Scott Trench

In spite of certain political talk to the contrary, it’s pretty clear to most of us now that we’ve just come out of a recession. It’s likely that more and more Am...

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Real Estate News & Commentary Aug 11, 2018

Why “Overpriced” Markets Like San Francisco May Be Healthier Than You Think

By Scott Trench

“Housing Prices in Expensive Markets Are Unsustainable! Housing Costs as a Percentage of Median Income Make Absolutely NO Sense! A Crash is Imminent!” Investors, homebuyers, and ...

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Mortgages & Creative Financing Jul 28, 2018

Why a 30-Year (NOT 15-Year) Mortgage Gives You a Better Shot at Building Wealth

By Scott Trench

There’s no “right” decision for everyone in the 15-year vs. 30-year mortgage debate. But there’s a good argument that one allows you to build more wealth.

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Personal Development Jul 09, 2018

5 Principles That Increase the Odds of Massive Career Success

By Scott Trench

If you want to move aggressively toward financial freedom, then there can be no debate that you must accelerate your wealth generation in some combination of the following four areas:

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Mortgages & Creative Financing Jun 14, 2018

Real Estate Crowdfunding: An Introduction

By Scott Trench

This article has been updated to reflect the Securities and Exchange Commission’s new regulations affecting non-accredited investors and equity crowdfunding that went into effect via the 

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Personal Finance Jan 04, 2018

10 Seemingly Harmless Habits That Sabotage Ambitious Millennials

By Scott Trench

As a generation, Millennials (myself included) have had more access to opportunity than any other generation in human history. There is an unlimited amount of productive ways toward which we c...

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Real Estate News & Commentary Dec 07, 2017

BiggerPockets Presents: The 10 Best U.S. Markets for Real Estate Investors, 2017

By Scott Trench

It’s that time of year again: BiggerPockets has released its 2017 Investment Market Index. This study takes a look at how investors across the country may have fa...

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Personal Finance Aug 19, 2017

The Surprisingly Simple “Secret” to Financial Freedom Most 9 to 5-ers Overlook

By Scott Trench

“I’m ready to get serious about financial freedom!” I used to be that guy—loudly proclaiming my intentions to build wealth and passive income, with the desire to invest in anythi...

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Personal Finance May 27, 2017

5 Critical Financial Lessons We Can Learn From Poverty & Homelessness

By Scott Trench

I am both fascinated and disgusted by the abject poverty that exists in plain view here in my wealthy city of Denver, CO. It’s incredible to me that the swankiest apartments in town, often renti...

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