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29 January 2025 | 3 replies
Purchase price: $220,000 Cash invested: $45,000 This is a 2 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom rental that I purchased.
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28 January 2025 | 13 replies
Rental arbitrage can be a great way to start with Airbnb if approached carefully.
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4 February 2025 | 1 reply
I’ve been looking into areas like Oakhurst, Mariposa, Yosemite West, and surrounding towns.If you own or manage a vacation rental in this region, I’d love to hear about your experience.
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3 February 2025 | 4 replies
Trying to understand what multi family rentals are and learning how I can invest or convince myself to invest into it or learn more on this topic to understand this is not my path.
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4 February 2025 | 7 replies
But I see people turning long term or highly appreciated primaries in to rentals.
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6 February 2025 | 6 replies
And eventually it shifted to more straight rentals as the market for capital got easier again.
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4 February 2025 | 2 replies
With insurance companies canceling policies and raising rates has anyone uncovered a way to self insure rental properties?
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7 February 2025 | 7 replies
Since the HELOC was used for a business use (renovating the rental) you can deduct the loan interest against that rental using the interest tracing rules found in §1.163-10T.
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29 January 2025 | 9 replies
Purchase price: $250,000 Cash invested: $14,000 I purchased and managed a rental property in Chicago, focusing on strategic improvements and tenant satisfaction to increase both its value and profitability.
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30 January 2025 | 4 replies
Me and my partner moved from Utah to Maryland for school recently and we have a townhouse that we are looking to rent. we are currently remodeling and changing a few things before renting. what are the first steps to change my primary to a rental I lived there for about two years.