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5 May 2020 | 1 reply
Quick tip: if you are interested in making connections in real estate investment and on Bigger Pockets, I would consider swapping out your photo or cropping it so it's just a headshot.
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9 May 2020 | 15 replies
If you like international travel, one angle that is interesting about the Orlando area is international house swapping.
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3 March 2021 | 22 replies
@Richard Palmer I'm an agent and Investor in Madison county, Add me and we can swap info!
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8 May 2020 | 0 replies
We actually acquired this property for free doing a building swap with City Center Investment the largest developer of Allentown Real estate.
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15 January 2020 | 10 replies
I am especially interested in any insight into getting in touch with good contractors or investors that would be willing to swap hard labor, passion and any other value I can give them for on the job training in these areas.
10 January 2020 | 25 replies
@Ani Kap a note on the electrical: if the circuits are ungrounded you should actually leave those 2 prong outlets in place (unless you’re planning to run a ground wire to the outlets or swap the breakers those outlets are on to GFCI breakers).
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14 January 2020 | 5 replies
That would be the one-time price expressed as discount points to get the owner occ rate even though it is a rental.https://www.fanniemae.com/content/pricing/llpa-matrix.pdfAlmost no one actually does that, though as you might have guessed from the above I had a couple people recently come pretty close, and one fellow knew he was going to sell the thing in less than a year, so he didn't care about the rate, he wanted the bank to cover his closing costs in exchange for a higher rate.If that price is too high, you can swap points out for rate at a ratio of about 1 point to 0.25% to rate.Today's rates sheet go from 2.5% to 6.5%.
10 January 2020 | 8 replies
But In New Hampshire and the Northeast the return isn't as great in other areas so I need to figure out where I want to swap the property to.
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11 January 2020 | 1 reply
Take a look at one small thing: you introduced yourself as a Realtor and investor; I swapped that order.12 months ago I realized I wanted to make investing my primary business - so I started with my language.
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2 September 2014 | 12 replies
Companies may warrant that and swap it out if it does not have a performing first.