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25 October 2024 | 2 replies
Sources for insurance and property taxes: Insurance - ValuePenguin, State Property Tax Rates - Rocket Mortgage.Low risk of natural disaster: Natural disasters can devastate your property and the surrounding community, leading to job losses and the closure of shops and businesses.
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22 October 2024 | 5 replies
I'm particularly passionate about growing quickly from SFRs into Multi-family and currently developing tools to source and assess deals.Outside of real estate, I enjoy long-form conversations with brilliant people, or at least watching them when there aren't other people around to converse with.
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28 October 2024 | 7 replies
It basically means you know nothing if your only source of knowledge is what the GP said and wrote.
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22 October 2024 | 7 replies
If BP is not already thinking about it, I think there will come another platform that will pull in all the information from platforms like BP and other credible sources to build an intelligent conversational AI that gives real time and historical real estate related data for investors and stakeholders and at some point home buyers might not even need some of us anymore.
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28 October 2024 | 34 replies
The article https://www.thetaxadviser.com/newsletters/2021/feb/final-sec... is one source of helpful info on this topic.
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22 October 2024 | 2 replies
The latter process would take more time (due to capital generation from other sources), cash investment and end up with much less capital appreciation over time but would also carry much less potential risk.
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23 October 2024 | 13 replies
You'll see a lot of the companies out there focus on the novelty of fractional ownership instead of sourcing quality real estate investments.
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23 October 2024 | 38 replies
Not saying you do not know how to do this, but make sure you pick the right lead source and know what that lead source will be giving you.
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21 October 2024 | 7 replies
Quote from @Denis Gvozd: @Bradley BuxtonZillow will not work if you need to analyze a multifamily/commercial building, but it's a great source for residential properties.True Zillow an under 4-unit platform.
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22 October 2024 | 23 replies
To recap, you pay to learn the necessary skills to source deals and capital for your educators and you are actually taught to deceive investors by embellishing your track record and credentials by dangling your GP status in ways not representative of your true role.