24 September 2016 | 8 replies
Happy investing and learning my friend
24 September 2016 | 0 replies
I will contact them in the first instance the next time I need finance for anything and refer any friends or family that need the same.
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7 October 2016 | 30 replies
Most people seem to avoid the conversation about all the Real Estate risk takers that played the biggest part in the housing crisis.A few years before the bubble burst I was encountering real estate investors, house flippers, and buy-and-hold participants everywhere I went, my waitress at The Cheesecake Factory, the two McDonalds employees talking deals on their lunch break, the clerk at the grocery store, everyone everywhere appeared to be a real estate investor in one form or another getting a piece of the housing boom.The underlining problem I noticed was during the rush to get into the RE industry most of the people capitalizing in the industry never learned the basics of RE investing and were simply doing what their friends, neighbors, coworkers, or online postings told them to do to get a piece of the pie.
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29 September 2016 | 47 replies
Meaning they're friendly towards the landlords and not the tenants.
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27 September 2016 | 3 replies
Downside is split single contract into two, double closing costs and increased mortgage insurance costs.MY QUESTION:Does this sound correct, or is the underwriter mistaken...Do multiple townhomes require their own individual loans for each single unit (even if apart of the same structure)?
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24 October 2016 | 10 replies
Hello future friends and associates I'm new to bigger pockets.
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28 September 2016 | 14 replies
How many spend a bunch of money on getting licensed, paying desk fees, gas, time, energy, marketing, hitting up all their friends, relatives, Top 200 list, to be a wash out.
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5 October 2016 | 9 replies
For vacancy I was told by an investor friend to budget two months as a more realistic number.
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28 September 2016 | 16 replies
IE some cash credit and capacity. your to big of a risk.. if you have none of those then its friends and family its charity to get you started
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26 September 2016 | 9 replies
I have a friend who stays in Brooklyn who i visit occasionally ill message you possibly we could meet up and have lunch.Thank you @Shawn Kostoff its a pleasure.