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My credit score is low (540 FICO). About 40K in debt and thinking of filing BK. From a lender's viewpoint, is it less favorable to have a BK than low FICO? Does it matter?
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Tell me about the good and bad of your house-hacking experience.I’m about 1 month away from beginning mine.Thanks,Nick
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Knock on the door of success:It’s that time of year again. It’s time to evaluate last year, to celebrate your successes and investigate where you need to improve. Once that’s done, you can move on to the all-important...
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I am relatively new to real estate investing and want to get started on buying buy and hold properties. Unfortunately I am stuck at a dead end job and was thinking of finding a job in the real estate field to help le...
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Hello BP Community! I’m Russell Harris. I am a 28 year old husband, father, and formerly unbeknownst real estate investor. In 2013 my wife and I were fresh out of college, and I mean the ink was still drying on our di...
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Hello BP. I'm Ryan from L.A. I attended a few real estate investing courses in late 2016. It's helped me to create a mindset shift that will allow me to live life to it's fullest potential. Prior to these course...
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We will close on this house in about 2 weeks, and it needs some curb appeal! Apparently someone doesn't like color, because everything on the outside of this house is white! White metal roof, white vinyl siding, white...
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I was doing a property drive-by the other day and noticed one of those Wal-Mart variety 3' swimming pools in the backyard of one of our SFR's. I've never had a tenant install a pool before.
After consulting with my ...