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13 July 2020 | 10 replies
Enough to fill 2 city blocks.
25 July 2020 | 12 replies
My goal was to take my commissions as a real estate agent and to invest in my first fix-n-flip or to buy my first property to reside in (house hacking) but the time has come to develop a new strategy.Although I found a cheaper alternative to purchase in Long Beach, CA (250 sq ft Studio; walking distance to downtown Long Beach; 3 blocks from Pacific Ocean: $150k list price; $80 HOA; Tenant in place renting $1,200 a month), I did not qualify for conventional financing.
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13 July 2020 | 2 replies
@Thomas WillinghamGet houses as close to the nearest “good block” as you can, and start basically fixing up that block and forcing some gentrification, rent those first few houses out for a bit while the property values on the block come up, then sell 1, sell a 2nd - basically creating your own comps, then keep fox and flipping and you’ve created your own little bubble.
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15 July 2020 | 7 replies
I had contract building blocks as a practical and was almost a waste of time (pick it up outside law school).2.
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15 August 2020 | 25 replies
My plan is to use this money as a down payment to invest in blocks of apartments.
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13 July 2020 | 1 reply
These cracks appear only on one corner/side of the house,noticed a horizontal detach of the last block across the house sideobviously here is a a foundation settlement, wanted to know what should the fix cost look like
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13 July 2020 | 0 replies
I keep hitting road blocks because I have a new business.
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21 July 2020 | 1 reply
However, only a block or two away from the "old money, big nice houses" in Goldsboro are very impoverished and crime-ridden streets.If you're looking at the big houses downtown, I'd be careful.
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15 July 2020 | 3 replies
Hello, I am a newly Real Estate investor and believe I have found my first rental property to purchase but am running into a small road block so I came here to ask for advice.
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13 July 2020 | 6 replies
The Worcester market can be highly variable between blocks, and a lot of the properties that are more or less "rent-ready" with numbers that look good seem to be in more "war zone" type areas, which I'd like to avoid as best I can.