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4 February 2015 | 2 replies
Hello BP'rs, I'm in a great market here in RDU North Carolina and wanted to let you virtual investors, out of state investors and anyone else who might need some boots on the ground in this area know that I'm willing to help out!
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7 April 2015 | 132 replies
Your scenario only works if the NMD investor creates enough equity through the purchase to enable borrowing off the newly created equity.
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9 February 2015 | 14 replies
I know an investor in KC who just had a buyer get into a house with virtually zero down.
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8 February 2015 | 7 replies
To afford the experience, I was willing to be a virtually silent partner and front the finances and let him do the leg work.
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17 February 2015 | 19 replies
That was with me thinking they were virtually ready to rent not because the seller said so.
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12 November 2022 | 11 replies
Also, I would point out that virtually all of the above also applies to those of you on HOA Boards.
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17 September 2022 | 17 replies
I know there will be some people chime in and disagree and that's OK but I have lived in three different "southern" states (Virginia, Florida, Tennessee) and spent most of my career working in a 4th (North Carolina) and workers and professionalism here sucks compared to virtually anywhere in the north or midwest.
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12 November 2022 | 11 replies
I going the school would enable you to get started sooner.
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14 September 2020 | 35 replies
If anyone is interested in the Los Angeles area maybe we can do a meet up or a virtual zoom meet up as well.
11 March 2021 | 1 reply
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