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My name is Roy and my wife and I have just begun real estate investing. We decided to begin investing when we rented out our first home and purchased a new home. The decision to rent out the first home was by circum...
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Hi BP! We are Dan and Sherri Trent from Grand Prairie, TX who just completed a 3 day seminar on real estate investing and we are EXCITED about getting started in R.E. We are both brand new at this and still have a ...
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Hi there, My husband, Andrew, and I live in in Cypress, Texas. We both work full time in the IT industry; he is a VP of Operations for a small managed services firm and I work as a Business Analyst in the Business Int...
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I have 2 STRs I purchased under conventional loans in my personal name. The current LTVs I estimate based on sales comps are at 59% & 66%. I'd like to refi into those loans into an LLC and use that capital to ac...
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Hello-I recently started a new job and seeking some advice on structuring my retirement accounts. First, I have a 401K set up at 8%, however, the company is not matching at this time. I've also enrolled in the ESPP at...
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Hi there!I’m a long-time video game programmer out of Seattle (more specifically Kirkland). I started with a (now failed) game company and remained in the industry for well over twenty years. There’s definitely been...
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Hello,I have a property for rent and has few applicants that submitted the application and been approved, but they never paid for the reservation fee (security deposit). Is there any reason why they not paying to movi...
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How much are you paying your virtual assistant? What are the type of tasks you are asking them to do? Where are they from.We are buy and hold investors - so any suggestion of how to leverage a VA would be greatly appr...
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Good evening, BP. This Sunday I'm hoping to look at a pair of houses neighboring each other that were brought to me off market. My hope is to be able to BRRRR them, and they would be my first real estate purchases. ...
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Hi All,My partner and I are closing on a 4Plex property that is a being built now. The total cost of the property is $415,000. - We have already paid $5,000 in earnest money and now the seller wants us to deliver 10% ...