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20 July 2020 | 6 replies
I’m a fellow New Yorker and an investor from Brooklyn to be exact.
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21 April 2023 | 6 replies
Thank you @Brooklyn McCarty
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7 December 2013 | 10 replies
I was born and raised in Long Island (Nassau County) and I am not living in Brooklyn.
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19 February 2019 | 10 replies
Anyone you know in Queens, Brooklyn, Long Island, and anywhere else in New York SHOULD attend.
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18 May 2018 | 5 replies
I'm currently in the process of buying my first multi family home for under 650,000 in Cypress Hill Brooklyn.
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27 January 2020 | 25 replies
You can also find better cash flow in Old Brooklyn (44109).
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16 July 2019 | 5 replies
If you go the Cleveland route, I would recommend looking at North Collinwood (the area off of Lakeshore Blvd.) or at Old Brooklyn... those are the two neighborhoods that are the most stable and will have duplexes that would be suitable to a newbie, especially as a live-in investment.
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29 June 2020 | 1 reply
Purchase price: $70,000 Cash invested: $22,000 Duplex in Old Brooklyn (Cleveland, OH).
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30 May 2018 | 32 replies
@Colin SmithI lived in Brooklyn, NY and though investing was for the people who had 20% down for a million dollar property.
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5 March 2019 | 0 replies
Purchase price: $50,000 Cash invested: $25,000 Obtained a great duplex off-market in the Old Brooklyn neighborhood with my business partner.