BiggerPockets Gets Even Better!
Joshua Dorkin has once again upped the ante for real estate investing websites with the recent site upgrade of BiggerPockets into a Web 2.0 Social Networking Community. BiggerPockets now boasts a membership of almost 12,000 registered members that network to share their knowledge, make real estate deals, and help each other become successful real estate investors. Additionally, unlike many other real estate investing sites that require users to pay a fee to access services and resources, all of the BiggerPockets site is free!
On January 5, 2008, BiggerPockets launched its next generation platform which includes some great new features:
- Build a personal profile of not just your phone number, email address and website, but also your real estate goals, your investment experience, and even your investing focus, allowing other members to connect with you easier to help you accomplish your goals.
- Invite your business contacts, peers, and friends to join BiggerPockets. Then monitor and track all completed, pending, and rejected invitations.
- Create private notes about other members of the site for help in remembering who gave you great advice, who may have a real estate deal you are interested in, or simply someone you respect.
- Mark other members as colleagues to build your virtual real estate investing team as a quick reference when putting together that next deal or needing advice.
- Find detailed information about other members in their personal profiles and download a VCard to instantly add them to your contact management software.
As a real estate investor, web designer, and one-time Realtor, Joshua started BiggerPockets, in 2004, after being disappointed by the other real estate sites out there. For years members have enjoyed access to:
- Real Estate Forums where members have posted over 61,000 articles on topics ranging from Investor Psychology to Rental Property Questions to Creative Real Estate Financing.
- An Investment Property Analysis Tool that returns a detailed analysis of any property/deal within seconds.
- Landlord and Real Estate Forms and Contracts for free download.
- And dozens of other resources that all real estate investors need!
If you have not yet been to the BiggerPockets site, what are you waiting for? Membership is free and registration takes just seconds. Get started now and see why I and the other 12,000 members believe that BiggerPockets is the best Real Estate Investing website out there.
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Biggerpockets.com is not that great of a real estate forum site. the guru and moderators, as well as the financially contributing members are bias to only there own comments and advise( which is at best inaccurate) It is set up as a referral pool to benefit the powers that be solely. one comment about this fact will get you banned from the site. because of this fact you cannot get good sound advise and higher ranking members like EZLoanz will solicite for your business. i would seek out other sites….
Thanks for the message.
I can’t say I agree with your experience. I have been on BiggerPockets for some time now and have always found the contributors to be helpful and courteous. In fact, I have left other forums because I felt the people on those sites were abusive and demeaning.
But, ultimately you are entitled to your opinion.
You need to have a very healthy sense of skepticism as well as a LOT of common sense (which seems to be not-so-common).
Real estate is a shady business. I’m always surprised how many fast-talking con-men (and women) are out there that made a TON of cash in the last few years. Not only do you need to be a people person, but being naive will drain your pocketbook.