Real estate investors nowadays have been discussing and actually joining a social network that has been up and running since 2004. It is a social network meant solely for investors in the real estate sector.
9 News reports that this social network based in Colorado aims to aid real estate investors come up with dependable decisions. Scott Yates, a 9news tech analyst, discussed the social network with Gregg Moss on their regular segment, Tech Tuesday. The social network named Bigger Pockets is a blog, book publisher, social network, podcast leader company directory, relationship builder and a whole lot more that becomes a convenient tool for real estate.
A monthly average of 1 million visitors engages, asks, analyzes properties, and gathers intelligence about the real estate industry and their transactions with other real estate investors with the hope of making better deals.
Denver Donate says that a certain visitor refers this social network as a "Facebook for real estate investment." Bigger Pockets has been acknowledged in CBS News, Huffington Post and the New York Times just to name a few. The books that it publishes become best sellers instantaneously in the business category of Amazon. The podcast is actually in the 150 most popular podcasts in iTunes.
The website offers a free and easy to make account with limited features. However, one can access the full features for $29 for Pro members and $9 for Plus members.
Bigger Pockets has over 430,000 members with more than 1,250,000 unique visitors on a monthly basis, thousands of articles, and over 1,500,000 forum posts. They aim to improve the networking, knowledge, marketing, dealmaking and other daily activities in real estate by providing tools, resources and data to help educate people in every angle of real estate and real estate investing.
Most of their content is free to their users and its social networking platform enables its users to professionally and safely communicate with each other. Users can be educated thru their blogs, forums, podcasts and articles without having to spend thousands of dollars. The site does not promote "gurus" for the gain of affiliate sales. Spammers and leeches are kicked in this site.
It is worth a try for a lot of would be real estate investors as they have got nothing to lose and a lot ot gain.
What do you think about Bigger Pockets Website?
