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A recent post questioned whether owners buy flood insurance. There were a few posts and replies.
I've owned properties and paid insurance on well over 1000 homes in the last 40 years. Do you know how many insura...
Am a NY licensed contractor who moved out here to LA county barely a year ago.. my CA contractor license is still pending. So in the mean time, I been keeping busy with working on my own properties and a few small lan...
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I am interested in transitioning into the so cal market. I wanted to network with other investors about the market in that area! Any pointers, locations to avoid, what strategies are working in that market etc... I am...
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I originally started writing about real estate because I wanted to hold myself accountable for my what I was doing, because I wanted to learn from my own mistakes and because I wanted to help others keep from making t...
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After paying my contractor 35k, I found his interior work was pretty shoddy. I already had a few issues with the contractor I pointed out and ask for discounts or refunds, but none were ever given, they just acknowled...
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Over the years of landlording and owning property in a college town, I have noticed that my Special Stipulations section in my leases have taken on some strange phrases and warnings to new tenants. It seems that e...
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So I'm lying in bed, exhausted. Just when I fall asleep, my cat wakes me up just to be annoying.
But rather than quickly falling back to sleep... I start doing real estate math in my head. And suddenly I'm wi...
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Hello everyone, my wife and I are about 5 weeks into our 10 week gut renovation of our first deal. I am newer to this but have done years of research, read books, and read numerous posts on this forum. The house in qu...
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Hello BP Members! I write a regular column for BiggerPockets Wealth Magazine on people's "Biggest Mistakes" in real estate. Do you have a "mistake" story and lessons you learned from it? I'd love to hear it! (Thanks t...