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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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11 January 2025 | 5 replies
The investor then gets the property for a few percentage points of the total property value.
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5 February 2025 | 4 replies
I’m starting a wholesaling company based in Wyoming and interested in operating in Texas and Florida as a start.
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7 February 2025 | 2 replies
Theres one I think its by Brandon Turner that is called rent to retirement. when I was starting out I read one that was called one property a year that resonated with me.
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4 February 2025 | 13 replies
I think the first place to start is evaluating quality deals.
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5 February 2025 | 2 replies
I grew up in Bucks County and started my career in Real Estate in Doylestown.
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6 February 2025 | 4 replies
From my experience working with over 400 investors, those who start with house hacking scale much faster.Good luck!
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30 January 2025 | 19 replies
Also start talking to lenders now to understand their requirements
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26 January 2025 | 13 replies
(Like I think Craigslist is still one of the best websites on the internet, but for some people it's a total turn-off because it still looks like 1995).Capterra.com is a great site for research in this category (and business software in general).
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7 February 2025 | 3 replies
Hi Carlos, Tucson is a fairly inexpensive place to start house hacking compared to a lot of the west coast.