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2 December 2024 | 33 replies
It is with mathematical certainty that soon coming will be opportunity to best acquire commercial residential properties, I am speaking in very near term, under 18mnths and it's currently looking to be making this shift somewhere in Q1 '25' and well into it by Q2 '25'.
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6 December 2024 | 12 replies
North of Austin, the county regulations say you don't have to do it IF you're only doing residential, certain lot sizes and limiting the impervious cover of each lot.
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28 November 2024 | 2 replies
I know it sounds like I'm splitting hairs but some banks write HELOCs in their residential department....which won't write Investment Properties.
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27 November 2024 | 13 replies
I'm originally from San Francisco, one of the more liberal and anti-landlord cities in the state.
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30 November 2024 | 1 reply
Adjacent to this bustling hub, affordable residential lots have remained available, particularly after decades of urban renewal and the city's efforts to address blight.
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29 November 2024 | 3 replies
As a non EU citizen, I will need a permit to purchase certain types of properties, except for residential (unit in an apartment).
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5 December 2024 | 554 replies
I don't have the time to study Bitcoin nor do I have the time or desire to study any individual company thus I invest my traditional retirement savings into low cost index funds.That being said, I do feel like I can study and become educated about my local residential real estate market and it is an interesting topic to me so that is where I spend my time, effort, and excess capital.Regarding, investment vs gambling.
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30 November 2024 | 11 replies
(If curious, my residential real estate investor clients from 10 years ago [you can find my 10 year old bigger pockets dot com posts :], at the time buying up 2-4 unit properties, a lot of them are now done with the 'human' tenants and want to 1031 into something that is ACTUALLY passive, so yes Starbucks comes up, thus I watch it).In my case I zoomed all the way into a specific brand (which then allows me to make very sweeping generalizations across an entire state -- but still not the entire country), I'm not suggesting you do that, but SOME of the variables need to be narrowed down, before you can gain any useful insights.
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19 November 2024 | 4 replies
Hi all, was wondering if anyone has or intends to file a claim in the residential real estate broker commission anti-trust settlements.
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2 December 2024 | 19 replies
We don't want a residential loan.