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Real Estate News in Brief
What a week! We had a huge downward revision to the BLS jobs growth figures, the Fed minutes explicitly said that a rate cut on Sept 18 was likely, and average mortgage rates moved below 6.5...
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Hello BP family! I hope all is well everyone I was looking for some advice on markets, submarkets, and class to start targeting. I'm in a small town about an hour of outside of Charlotte, NC. I'm in the early stages o...
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I tend to shy away from homes over ~20 years old to buy and hold for long term renting. This is because I'm concerned that even though the things in the house I can see look great things like the electrical, plumbing,...
We know the multifamily market is on fire, largely due to low interest rates, plentiful debt and equity, and demographics. The largest group of millennials are currently 24 and 25 years old and in their prime renting ...
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I have an investment property that I bought as my primary home awhile back in Bend, OR. I have $180K on the mortgage and since I bought pre-pandemic, the property has accrued a good amount of equity (I could likely se...
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https://austonia.com/spacex-st...Between Tesla, SpaceX, other tech companies. Austin is going to attract the main talent even if the manufacturing occurs outside the city. We just had a good post wondering if prices c...
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I have been looking @ this formula w/ real case scenarios. The only way you can make this work is with very low price homes in suspect area. Now, if you do that, what's the quality of the tenants going to be &, ev...
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Does anyone have any experience with an investment vehicle like https://fundrise.com/? Just curious if it is a big scam, or something to be considered. Maybe a good move for a novice? anyone have any thoughts?
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I'm new to investing in real estate and am about ready to make my first purchase in an investment property. I was steered towards Columbus OH by an agent I met here on BP. Then, another trusted colleague told me to lo...
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I am planning to buy a rental property in north Austin in next 2-4 weeks. My budget is between 250K-325K. I will be buying a single-family house. After looking at different neighborhoods I have finalized three areas 1...