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Hi everyone.I'm an RE newbie so I'd like to pick your brain a bit.I've been looking at multi-family homes for my first investment and I found a good place on the West side of Midtown.The good thing about this duplex i...
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Hello Everyone,I was curious as to if anyone has structured any interesting deals with their listing agent in order to try to motivate them. I've completed 8 deals in my local market in the past couple years and have...
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Hey All,
Has anyone had any success with having their capital gains tax excluded upon sale of your property after living there for only 1.5 out of the last 5 years?
In Garrett Sutton's book, "Loopholes of Real Estat...
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Hello fellow BP Pros,Can any of you recommend a good GC in the Los Angeles area? I'm a wholesaler who frequently works with newbie rehabbers. Sometimes they have a GC already and sometimes they don't. I'd love to be a...
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Maybe this is old news in this forum but I've been dealing with quite a few condo flippers that didn't realize that the potential buyers' lenders are going to put up a bunch of roadblocks and it's not going to be as e...
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I wanted to share this with people outside of Utah too, so I posted in the general forum. But it was mainly written for those of us in Utah.https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/311/topics/67...Frenzy! ...
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I have a possible tenant that tells me they don't have to pay the pet deposit because their pit bull is a service animal and I legally cannot charge them a pet deposit. Advise please.
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(ARV x 65%) - Repair Costs = Maximum Allowable Offer. What do you do if the math makes the MAO so ridiculously low that the previously "motivated" seller becomes not so motivated? Example: ARV $162,000 X 65% = $105,...
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Ok, some private money found me (hallelujah) but it's only 25k.The person giving it to me suggests that I find the cheapest fixer upper I can to flip to a rehabber.....I just want to know if this is a good idea.....Or...
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Ladies and gents, here is a link to the photos of my latest finished rehab.
I wish I had some good before shots so she the extent of work done. With the exception of the den and cabinets, this was nearly a comple gu...