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21 October 2020 | 1 reply
HI @Scott Gadea, the answer is: Save more money ORInvest in a lower cost market Both are methods that people have used for years to generate great amounts of financial stability or wealth, but the latter is a wonderfully efficient arbitrage play AND many would recommend this because of the fact that your home market is a cyclical market and you'd be wise to build assets in linear markets, or at least hybrid markets that blend the benefits of the two.For more information on investing in real estate outside of your home base area, check out David Green's book Long Distance Real Estate Investing
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23 October 2020 | 53 replies
They get all the benefits of owning real estate, don't leave much of their profit in the city outside of the low taxes, and it seems to me that this does remove valuable housing stock - especially affordable housing.
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21 October 2020 | 4 replies
MY QUESTION to the forum is, my goal is to start another hearing practice outside my county (since I now have a non-compete with the practice I sold) but want to utilize my new real estate license in order to have better access to find investment properties.
22 October 2020 | 4 replies
Then B got a dream job outside of Anchorage and is debating whether to keep this property and sit on it, continue to slowly put money into it, and hopefully get it ready to sell or partially rent, or sell it outright to a cash buyer at a steep discount.
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22 October 2020 | 3 replies
An advantage of turnkey is that it allows investors to participate in markets outside of their own.
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26 October 2020 | 7 replies
In order to finance my next deal (fix & flip), I need outside, non-traditional financing (equity partner and hard money).
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21 October 2020 | 2 replies
It is damaged on inside selling for $20,000.00 bank walk around outside evaluation says value is $90,000.00.
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25 October 2020 | 5 replies
If the building was built after 1945 but before 1965 it probably has lead on the outside and not the inside so it's worth going for the limited lead cert.2.
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22 October 2020 | 6 replies
The owner lives out of state and wants to get rid of the house.The house is not completely ran down cosmetics on the outside it looks decent but I can’t look in the inside what do I do how do I get inside thanks
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28 October 2020 | 6 replies
Assume $5k per unit to delead and count the outside as a unit, so a 3 family is 4 units = $20k.