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12 January 2025 | 12 replies
I’ve seen people buy land thinking water was covered only to find out they had to pay 6 figures to get water re-routes or upgrade pump stations.
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12 January 2025 | 8 replies
Let people know you’re buying when you get ready to buy.
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7 January 2025 | 2 replies
People were panicking about their roofs collapsing and willing to pay almost anything to get someone up there to shovel them off.
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17 January 2025 | 4 replies
The guy on Youtube that boasts about buying properties with no money out of his pocket and using other people's money from his "community" to pay for closing and carrying costs, said in a video in June that he had 10 Due on Sale called in AZ alone from Jan 2024 to May 2024.
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12 January 2025 | 2 replies
People I admire in the space: Grace Gudenkauf (also a BP author) or Jenn & Joe Fave.
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11 January 2025 | 3 replies
I've heard of people doing this, but you need to be rehabbing it enough to make it higher value so ideally you need to be purchasing something that needs some rehab so that you can increase the equity because otherwise you're not gonna have enough equity to pull out
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19 December 2024 | 24 replies
Most of that is not really worth much to most people.
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13 January 2025 | 2 replies
You can tell him the people on BP think it's not a good idea.
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14 January 2025 | 4 replies
It works great for many people -- not me -- but it might be your best option considering your distance.
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7 February 2025 | 12 replies
(Many people just assume it'll be fully tax-free because they lived in it somewhere)