Real Estate Formulas for Financial Success

Helpful guides for investing and getting real estate information

BiggerPockets

Biggerpockets is a community of real estate investors, to motivate and help you move toward financial success—whether that means landing your first investment property, expanding your current portfolio, networking with fellow investors and vendors, or simply bettering your financial situation. They host regularly updated resources ranging from free content in the form of forums, blog articles, podcasts, and videos to deal-evaluating calculators.

REtipster

Real estate investors using a passive investment strategy find that REtipster is the place to go for investor know-how and cutting-edge tools to revolutionize the business of investment real estate. Designed specifically for real estate investors, REtipster offers proven resources on blogs, podcasts, videos, and more.

Redfin

Redfin got its start inventing map-based search and now has evolved to become a data-centric real estate company. They provide interesting insights to markets as well as a topical news articles to give the stats context.

Zillow Porchlight

Most people know Zillow as the place to find your new home or rental. However, it also connects directly to the MLS, which means you can find every house listing in your area there. A little known feature of Zillow is its blog. It dives into everything from buying and selling your investment properties to choosing the best location for your investments.

Active Rain

This site is like a social media platform, but only for real estate professionals. Active Rain connects real estate professionals all over the U.S. to help them network and work together more effectively. Whether you are looking to invest out of state or have a rental that needs a bit of work you can go on active rain and find those resources at the tip of your fingers.

Realtor

Realtor.com will provide you with the most up-to-date market news and trends. Most of the major news sources credit Realtor.com for their pieces containing real estate market research. The treasure trove of knowledge found here are largely unprecedented. This is also a good place to go watch market trends happen and find data on specific markets. If you want to know what places to consider investing in, look here for the data and analytics.

Trulia

Want to know more about an area than stocking it on Google Maps can offer? Trulia gives you in-depth looks into neighborhoods including crime rate, income, walkability score, and the schools. Additionally, the residents of those neighborhoods can share their personal experiences to round out the picture of the neighborhood.

Invest Four More

Founded by Mark Ferguson, he shares his personal experiences and knowledge of his own investment properties. He provides free tools to help you identify deals, to flipping resources. This is one site that will help your flipping dreams come to fruition.

The Flipping Junkie

Created by Danny Johnson—a software developer turned house flipper and wholesaler. He shares how he went from a normal 9 to 5 career to flipping houses and becoming financially independent.

Deal Check

This website/software makes it easy to analyze rental properties, BRRRR’s, flips, and multi-family buildings, estimate profits and find the best real estate deals.