Have you ever dreamed of delving into real estate investments but didn't know how to get started?
There is an online, free resource called BiggerPockets.com that offers real estate networking and information resource platforms, created for professionals, investors, homeowners, and other aficionados. With over 150,000 members, their mission is to help educate people in all aspects of real estate and real estate investing and to provide tools, data, and resources to enhance real estate knowledge.
While many of the additional services the website offers are "pay for service", many useful articles and starter guides are available on their website free of charge. For example, they offer the Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Real Estate Investing. This resource includes eight chapters focusing on specific parts of the investing journey including how to choose your real estate niche and strategies, creating your real estate business plan, financing your real estate investments and executing exit strategies. They offer blogs and forums where one can go to read up on a variety of real estate investing related topics. In the online forum, you can keyword search for your specific topic you are interested in among nearly 800,000 posts covering more than 100,000 topics. And, they also offer a real estate podcast you can subscribe to through ITunes, with topic headlines such as "Flipping and Wholesaling Homes While Working Full Time" and "An Introduction to Investing in Vacation Rental Properties".
Lauren Bunting is a licensed REALTOR®with Bunting Realty, Inc. in Berlin.
Lauren Bunting is a Broker with Keller Williams Realty of Delmarva in Ocean City, Maryland.