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24 December 2024 | 1 reply
Hi BiggerPockets Community,I’m Alex Banegas, an ambitious multi-family investor passionate about creating wealth through real estate.
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24 December 2024 | 6 replies
Hello @William Arias,Welcome to the community!
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27 December 2024 | 2 replies
Hello BP Community,I have been a BP lurker for many years and after falling out of love with retail real estate- I am oh so READY to get into investing (my first true love).
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24 January 2025 | 36 replies
So while I greatly appreciate all the different methods of making money with real estate and even more impressed with all the hustlers that grind here in this community, I just need properties that I can get at a good deal that cash flow and appreciate while minimizing the trouble commonly associated with real estate.
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12 January 2025 | 23 replies
There are several hurdles during the process:Find the deal - Unless you are marketing or plugged into a community where there are opportunities, it isn't always easy to find the right dealsEvaluate the deal - Without professional guidance and research tools, it is difficult for a newbie investor to evaluate and ARV/FMV or create an adequate rehab budgetSecondary exit strategies - If things don't go as planned are their other opportunities to exit profitably.
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31 December 2024 | 9 replies
Google maps shows quite a few "Manufactured Home Communities".
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3 January 2025 | 19 replies
Welcome to the BP Community and most folks I know that are in your same situation with properties in 1 or more LLCs end up refinancing those properties into DSCR loans (instead of HELOCs) to extract the cash they need for their next acquisitions.
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2 January 2025 | 10 replies
Say they have a "community" of 100 and someone does a deal, (it doesn't have to be a deal that actually makes sense), everybody believes that's "their" success and they all do the "happy dance".
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23 December 2024 | 21 replies
Welcome to the community, Jerem!