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6 February 2025 | 3 replies
Hello my name is Ernest KAKEU, I live in Midland.
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11 February 2025 | 8 replies
You are young and presumably single, so living in a master suite while renting out some other rooms is easy.
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3 February 2025 | 8 replies
If you're ever looking to chat more about investing strategies, or need any advice as you start your journey, feel free to reach out.My plan is to kick off my investing journey this year with my first live-in flip.
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2 February 2025 | 5 replies
I'm from Newburyport and lived in Seaport for a while.
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4 February 2025 | 7 replies
This works best when the seller is motivated and open to flexible terms.4.BRRRR Strategy (Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat)– If you find the right undervalued property, you can finance the rehab with short-term funding and then refinance into a long-term loan, pulling most or all of your money back out.5.House Hacking– If you’re open to living in your investment, you can use an FHA loan (as low as 3.5% down)to buy a multi-unit, live in one unit, and rent out the others.
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4 February 2025 | 6 replies
Focus on absentee owners and start with the ones who live the farthest away and only own one property in the area since they have the least use for the property.You can also drive for dollars, looking for anomalies of disrepair and then look them up in the tax records and use a site like Spokeo to do cheap skip tracing.
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11 February 2025 | 0 replies
We love to take care of the students that live in our apartments the best we can with amenities!
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30 January 2025 | 6 replies
I would love to hear any suggestions about where I should look to live in the area.
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3 February 2025 | 4 replies
However, if you choose to stay there for a bit and sell you'll get the first $500K of profit tax-free if you've lived in it for at least 2 out of the 5 years prior to sale.
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7 February 2025 | 4 replies
Unfortunately, over the 11 months he has lived there, he has only managed to pay the rent on time once.