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I am still very much at the start of the learning curve, but I'm fairly sure I want to become a Buy and Hold investor -- the rest is too abstract for me -- and that I will likely live in my first property, in part so ...
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What's up guys,My name is Gregory Dickerson Jr. I'm a new investor in the Metro Detroit area. I currently make my living as a graphic designer and I'm looking to real estate as a method to better myself financially—bu...
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Hey everyone,We’ve grown out our current home and are under contract on a new more spacious home. My current home would rent for about 1900-2000, but my mortgage is 1850 a month (15 year loan @2.75). There wouldn’t be...
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Hi everyone, I put an offer on a legal duplex in Hamilton (just received a zoning verification certificate from city of Hamilton, confirming that the house is recognized as a 2 family dwelling, legally established no...
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I'm considering a couple of properties in the Oak Grove, and Highland Terrace/Providence Park neighborhoods in Richmond, some for rentals, one or two for flips. I live up in DC so I don't know the areas too well. Does...
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Hello!My original plan was to buy a small multifamily (2-4 units) in my area and househack. House hacking (self-occupancy) would of course allow me to go with a non-conventional, non-commercial mortgage like Homestyle...
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Hello. I purchased a home in late 2007. I live in a small garage apartment for 4 years while renting out the main house. The property had a large double lot in a nice neighborhood, so in 2014 I subdivided the lot a...
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Good afternoon BP community. I am new to this platform, so I hope this is the right place for this question. I own a business that distributes out of 16 warehouses in the central United States. The warehouses we op...
Hello, new poster here. I seem to be getting mixed answered regarding this topic.If I pay for my privacy fence and it is 1 foot inside my property from a chain link fence that divides our neighbors backyards, can I ha...
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I'm selling a rental property for $550k and holding $130k in seller financing for 1 year with a balloon payment next year. I bought the property for $80k. My questions are these:
1. Would I need to buy replacement ...