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10 January 2025 | 67 replies
Apartments, Student Housing, Self Storage, Commercial, etc.The SEC classifies a DST as a security so they must be purchased from a financial advisor.The costs very A LOT by financial advisor and DST Sponsor.
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19 December 2024 | 7 replies
I had a 1031 client who sold an apartment complex in Iowa and purchased five houses with me in Austin to use as short term and long term rentals.
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18 December 2024 | 5 replies
I'm excited for the opportunity to be apart of the community with BP, I reside in the state of Virginia and started my investment journey many years ago at 22 doing fix and flips, I stopped when the market crashed in 2007/2008 and didn't like the way the market looked and I left the investing world, I became a mortgage loan officer, and then processor and later underwriter and learned the backend of the conventional lending world.
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17 December 2024 | 29 replies
The bathrooms made me so depressed... plastic shower units with sad apartment class vanities with some sort of beige solid surface tops.
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6 January 2025 | 57 replies
You can also own REITs, which are shares of real estate (ex: apartment complexes, self storage, etc).
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31 December 2024 | 32 replies
Its just kind of the nature of the beast and investing were over 50% of all homes are rentals its a different lifestyle than what we are used to at least on the west coast were maybe 10% of SFR's are rentals renters rent apartments.
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22 December 2024 | 8 replies
No pocket listings = agents aren't even calling for new leads anymore, rising interest rate has nothing to do with an agent's ability to generate leads.If you mean multifamily apartments, 5 units and up, some of those agents will know, but not many until you are over 10 units which are more listed by only commercial brokers which I agree do understand seller finance.
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16 December 2024 | 1 reply
Economic Timing.According to data compiled by Marcus & Millichap[2], the Portland area has experienced three very important trends since 2010:The average price per unit for apartments has nearly doubledThe rate of employment growth rose from 2010 to 2015 but has since declined steadily, projected to be up 1% for 2020 (estimated before COVID-19)Roughly 30,000 apartments have been built since 2010, with another 5,600 units slated for construction in 2020Most RHA members have enjoyed a solid decade of price growth, rent growth and steady occupancy.
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17 December 2024 | 16 replies
We have inherited apartments with grow labs, felons, roach infestations... almost anything that you can think of.
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14 December 2024 | 13 replies
We have located a good parcel of land at a fair price, only issue is it's currently zoned for residential and we are planning to develop a small, 8-unit apartment on it.