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11 February 2025 | 19 replies
I am trying to find a mentor and I feel like working for a corporate wholesaler might give me the experience I need to turn my little $175,000 chunk into a rental property business one day.
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11 February 2025 | 6 replies
I need to send out 1,000 postcards to get 5 phone calls, and 1 phone call turns to a deal. 4.
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5 February 2025 | 16 replies
If you just hire the cheapest or first PMC you speak with and it turns into a bad experience, please don’t assume ALL PMC’s are bad and start trashing PMC’s in general.
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5 February 2025 | 16 replies
A boutique hotel is a great investment, assuming your plan is the turn it into a STR hotel as well.
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10 February 2025 | 16 replies
In 30 years your $80k downpayment has turned in to a $1.6M paid off property.
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21 January 2025 | 15 replies
Spend a little more money than you might have been planning to, buy in a better area (i.e. not a “turn key” 100k house off the mls), and self manage.
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10 February 2025 | 9 replies
Odds are you aren't going to hold the loan to term.In all honesty, you will probably be able to refi down below 6 for free in the next 18 months.We haven't seen rates this high since 07', In my opinion I think we see the money printers turn on & rates lowered in the coming years.
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10 February 2025 | 6 replies
Other locals with similar experience had mentioned that this scenario might not be the best fit and it turned out to be correct.
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5 February 2025 | 5 replies
I think that's one of the reasons that I didn't post very much on BIggerPockets, it's because I was just trying to keep my head above water.But now it's 2025 and things are stabilizing and I have a much more positive outlook on the future.Let me know if any of you had a couple of difficult years recently and how you were able to turn it around if you did.
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27 January 2025 | 48 replies
The guy that turns on and off the lights in the P&G lobby has a couple million in stock.