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26 January 2025 | 4 replies
This is where you live in one side.
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31 January 2025 | 12 replies
Check fees are $10**** When buying physical real estate, you must have a 10% cushion of the purchase price**We waive the first 6 transaction review fees for the life of the account.*** The first 12 incoming checks are free each year.
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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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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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6 February 2025 | 3 replies
Hello my name is Ernest KAKEU, I live in Midland.
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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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3 February 2025 | 8 replies
I live in the Washington DC area, and I would love to connect with anyone willing to.
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5 February 2025 | 3 replies
We lived in a little apartment above the garage and rented out the main portion of the house.
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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.
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31 January 2025 | 22 replies
This requires 10% down and you typically just have to live in the property for 14 days out of the year.