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Hi My name Is Robin Prettyman. I'm a licensed realtor of 10 years. I'm ready to pursue my dreams of real estate investing. I just need help figuring out where to begin. I want to buy cheap homes cash and HOLD them. I...
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Can anybody please describe the process banks use to choose the listing agent for their REOs? Thanks in advance.
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Hello Everybody,Here is my situation,I am very eager to jump into REI however I just signed a 15 month rental lease with my girlfriend. Do you think it is a good idea to try and pursue long term buy and hold rental pr...
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Hi Everyone,New member here :) I am interested in investing in real estate in bay area. This will be my first investment property. Thinking of SFH (Single Family Home), as HOA regulations in some places restrict the u...
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I have been thinking of investing in multi-family syndications as a way of moving away from active direct investments into more passive investments to simplify life.I found this article in the link below very interest...
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My husband and I are looking for our first home to buy. I was recently talking to my mother and she warned me that her best friend (who is a real estate agent in Lodi Ca) was telling her that she thinks there will be...
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Background:So I just got a tenant in my 2nd rental property. I closed on May 23rd, 2013. Tenant moved in on July 19th, 2014. There were some things I had to take care of: change front and rear door locks, replace m...
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The S&P crushed it last year... So I think of it this way: Buy apartments, and use that passive income to grow your portfolio. Real Estate doesn't require you to trade your time for returns, like trading your time...
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I just closed on my 1st investment property! It was listed as a 3/1 foreclosure; however when I walked the property with my agent it looks like a 2/1 with a single car garage attached by a breezeway that had previousl...
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Hi BP,I'm new to investing and looking for some help understanding NOI & Cap Rate and how they correlate to value. Specifically, will a commercial lender value our property with with these metrics for a potential...