I'm considering investing in a duplex that I will owner occupy. The duplex was built in 1991 and is priced at 285k with an assessed value of 255k. The listing agent said that the price was set where it's at because ...
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Thought I would throw this one out to the wisdom of the masses of the good people here on BP, and see if it can help me come to a decision.I won't bore you with all the details of a mismanaged property and non paying ...
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I attended the meetup in Lima, OH last night hosted by @Ben Leybovich. Sometime between the meetup and driving home my wife and I lit up with energy to learn as much about this business as possible. I listened to @Eng...
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Even when you love your job there are parts of it that can feel like a drag. What is your least favorite part of our industry?
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We are looking at putting together a simple, repeatable, improvable, standardized, simplified, optimized, economized multifamily project designed to be modular. A 13' 8" by 30' or 40' module built at a set locatio...
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Hello all, I recently discovered real estate investing and so all of this is very novel to me. Since I have discovered this world I have become determined to buy homes and rent them out. However, most homes in the Pho...
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A year and a half ago I wrote the following post. I had so many people contact me and thank me for writing it over the past year or so that I wanted to go back through, update it and republish it to share, help, and i...
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I wrote this on the BP blog a couple weeks ago and after several have thanked me posting the article I thought I would add it to the forums to share with those that had not had a chance to read it. In this post, I wil...
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So I am new to this. I desperately want to start investing so I can make a difference in my life and the life of my family. I want to start either wholesaling or flipping. I am in a cash poor position with really noth...
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I just downloaded Brandon Turner's spreadsheet calculator and was going down the list and saw excise tax. For those familiar with the Dallas market, what is the excise tax on the sale or property here? Is it the same ...