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The Austin area real estate market has steamrolled through 2020 so far with little regard to the pandemic. According to the Austin Board of REALTORS (ABoR), July 2020 saw significant year-over-year gains in closed sal...
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A lot of the investing strategy that I see here tends to aim for immediate/ short-term gains. Either with immediate cashflow or quick appreciation in currently booming markets. Cheap midwest states offer cashflow. TX ...
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I am currently in the search for my first vacation rental. The question I have in my mind is what will happen to the occupancy rate and ADR if there is an economic downturn in the near future? Obviously it will drop o...
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I was renting a room close to Elmvale shopping mall in ottawa and the owner had purchased a 3+2 bedroom 1+1 bath detached house for around 400K in spring of 2018.The house which is right next to it is sold for 565K in...
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https://www.foxbusiness.com/re...This is a headline I just read on FOX business. J. Scott Schell is claiming this commercial real estate crisis will be worse than 2008. What are your thoughts on his analysis?
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I live in a small (8000 population) an hour and a half south of KC. We are the county seat and the population of the county is about 25k. In my opinion the town is not as health economically as what it was even 5...
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So it seems that the state of Indiana went and passed a law which may or may not allow certain businesses to discriminate against others based upon religious belief. Multitudes of Businesses have come out against the...
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I have 30k to invest into real estate. I was hoping to get my hands on a duplex in MO. I heard positive things about that market. Any one have any advice or wise words for the KC, area? I was looking by West Plaza.
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Over the the episodes from the past two weeks, David from the BiggerPockets podcast has brought up that real estate will be harder and harder to from the "small guy" to get into each year due to factors like: inflatio...
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The theory I'm trying to prove is when a school places more frequently in the Top 10 year end BCS/CFP rankings, the more appreciation yields for real estate holdings in that college city. Check my blog post here: htt...