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First and foremost, I want to say thank you for allowing me to be part of the BP community. This is my first post here and it’s centered around using condos as investment property.

I just wanted to pick th...

Wow! Our last poll had over 700 responses! Because I think the last poll generated a ton of interest, I'm going to start doing this regularly until someone stops me or I run out of questions to ask :) This week, the p...

Hi all,New to the forum and getting close to making my first rental investment and I'd like to be sure I'm thinking all of this through properly, so any feedback, tips, advice would be greatly appreciated! A little ba...

As has been discussed quite heavily on these forums, as investors, we look to 'gross' 2%+ of the purchase price and expect 50% of the rent to pay for all expenses except the financing.

Do any of you 'fudge' on these ...

I have a guy who wants to do a roof job for me on the side. He works for a licensed roofer, but is not insured or licensed himself. Should I run away and why? By the way, it would save me about $2000.

We all know that over-inflated appraisals caused a lot of the mess that we're still working through. Appraisers are now on the other side of the pendulum, generally being very conservative with their valuations.

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Hey there,Let's say I have $1M worth of stocks including my 401k. I find a property that is worth $700k.In theory I can make a cash offer to this property. When it comes to actual execution, I have to sell those stock...