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Hello Bigger Pockets!!!!
My partner, Nick Wiggins (not sure how to tag yet and I wanted to introduce ourselves here to the community – and hopefully have this be the first of many, many value added discussions. We lo...
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Hello everyone.
I was introduced to the real estate investing/entrepreneurship lifestyle later in my education. I was already enrolled in my master's program when I learned about this whole other world and what succe...
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Me and my girlfriend (probably wife by that point) are planning a move to Denver most likely in early 2025 and are interested in house hacking as a means to save income and build a rental portfolio. I'd like to have s...
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Hello. I'm a wholesaler in NY. New York is an attorney closing state. My sellers attorney said he will not write a contract for less then 10% of the sale of the home. My seller and I agreed on an earnest deposit for m...
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I am in the process of purchasing a small self-storage facility with existing tenants (no contracts), and everyone seems to pay different amounts for the same size units. Some have been there for 10+ years, and some d...
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What are everyone's experiences on landscaping at a rental unit? Any success/disaster stories?
I recently cleared my backyard out of all weeds, mulch, rocks that were there. The previous owner neglected the backyard...
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On Long Island, especially in my town Massapequa/Plainedge, taxes for a single family home are high... like 15k-25k high. Now I have read that homes of similar sqft and condition in other states have lower taxes. 5K o...
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New to investing.. have been following bigger pockets for couple weeks and been blown away with the amount of content they have.
I started looking at deas in my home town(Charlotte, NC). Single family or 2-4 unit mu...
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Hi everyone - as they say, slow and steady wins the race and that's the name of the game: SLOW. Part of that is because I'm an impatient person and part of that is because the whole process was relatively slow due to ...
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I have blogged about optimal leverage a few times and nobody ever seems to have a really good explanation about their approach to it for real estate investing or when it makes sense to take cash out for other investme...