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3 February 2025 | 5 replies
Over the next 5–10 years, I plan to scale to a portfolio of rental properties and eventually diversify into syndications.I’m particularly interested in the Lynchburg, VA market and other areas with strong rental demand.What I Bring to the Table:I’ve been saving aggressively, and I’m exploring physician loans to help get started with minimal upfront costs.I’ve done a lot of reading (shoutout to BiggerPockets books!)
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7 February 2025 | 6 replies
I am a big fan of getting rid of consumer debt as it puts a constraint on your income and savings.
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5 February 2025 | 54 replies
It’s a cost, but it saves time and headaches.5.
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29 January 2025 | 12 replies
Quote from @David Young: My wife and I are new to this and are saving for our first property our goal is to start looking for properties in November 25, we have a couple questions, would it be wise to invest out of state for our first time investment (we do plan on physically going to see the properties to potentially invest in) ?
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30 January 2025 | 8 replies
It will save you tens of thousands of dollars if not hundreds of thousands of dollars. 3.
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19 January 2025 | 5 replies
Thanks Alicia :)The clients ultimately leased it to a company.
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6 February 2025 | 0 replies
Not worth the up front savings.
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3 February 2025 | 11 replies
It’s like you bought the properties with a 30 year loan and are putting the rest in to a savings account.
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26 January 2025 | 43 replies
The seller had attempted to buy me out of the deal but ultimately realized they had no legal grounds to back out.
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7 February 2025 | 13 replies
For a while I looked into medium size deals like 30-50 units in class B neighborhoods, but ultimately could not negotiate a deal to the point where it would have made financial sense.