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4 December 2024 | 32 replies
By your own admission you are not interested in sourcing acquisitions or capital raising, so get a job working as a property manager or in operations for a real estate company.
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26 November 2024 | 17 replies
If you plan on self-managing the properties, then you’ll likely need to register each LLC as foreign entity in state of CA and pay franchise tax for each one.
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5 December 2024 | 8 replies
Larger, nicer homes tend to be more expensive to maintain and harder to rent consistently due to high turnover costs.4.What are your other sources of income?
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1 December 2024 | 0 replies
Deal sourcing- if you’re willing to search regionally, don’t ask anyone to sell that isn’t already in a sale mode. “ No marketing.”
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9 December 2024 | 98 replies
It is mostly acts like a foreign currency today and that might require currency conversion beforehand to find any same day US dollar value.
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30 November 2024 | 6 replies
But I'm almost exclusively sourcing them off-market.
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2 December 2024 | 34 replies
Buying real estate is NOT a foreign affair to anyone from any country.
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30 November 2024 | 5 replies
And if you already found some other sources if you could let me know how you found them.
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1 December 2024 | 7 replies
@Philip JonesYes, it can be a source of frustration and a complete time suck but you may find a deal.
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30 November 2024 | 0 replies
A good broker maintains relationships with various funding sources, including individual investors, investment groups, and financial institutions.