Comments on: BiggerPockets Gets Even Better!

By: Joshua Dorkin

Joshua Dorkin — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 21:46:11 +0000

Scott –
I just wrote an essay thanking you for your review and explaining why someone like “tony the tiger” probably isn’t a fan of the site, but I messed up and lost the whole thing.

First – thanks for the post again . . . I’m surprised I didn’t see this sooner or I would have dropped in then.

As for the allegations that we favor paying members or anyone else, that’s just complete nonsense. Lots of new members come through because they think they can just advertise for free on our forums without actually giving back to the community, but we quickly put a stop to that.

There is a sense of entitlement that people can just go anywhere and act however they want, but we have a set of rules and enforce those rules universally, regardless of whether a member is a paid or free member. The people who can’t figure it out – who join and immediately spam our site – get penalized, privileges revoked, or banned.

I’m guessing our anonymous commenter above is one of those people.

As for John’s comments about being careful – that’s absolutely right. There are so many people out there who are looking to take advantage of real estate investors and we do more than any other site to ensure that BiggerPockets is a site by investors for investors. Unlike most other real estate investing sites, ours isn’t just a funnel for selling expensive real estate investing guru courses, bootcamps, etc.

We are very transparent about our goals and purpose – to create the one place online where investors can be protected as much as possible from the shadier characters who look to take advantage of them.

Thanks again for the review Scott!

By: johnbeckland

johnbeckland — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:03:26 +0000

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.

By: Scott Ficek

Scott Ficek — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:40:08 +0000

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.

By: tony the tiger

tony the tiger — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:51:28 +0000

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….