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Howdy everyone wanted to get some feedback / opinions on mid term rentals! Looking to begin a potential development in downtown San Antonio that can be short or mid term rentals due to the area. Wondering what your ex...
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Title says it all: What's something nobody tells you about Real Estate Investing, but should?I'll go first: THE MAIL! and the TEXTS! It's overwhelming. I've never gotten more snail mail in my life (mortgage statements...
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Has anyone else found multi-family appraisals in your area to be essentially worthless? I know the banks require them but I have found them to be wholly lacking in credibility. We have under contract a 48 unit that...
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Hi BP,On January 5, 2015 my partner and I put our first property under contract. On January 30, 2015 we closed the transaction and made $17k total profit. This thread will detail how we found the deal, obstacles we ov...
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I posted this on FB also, but I think it was a TL;DR situation, and/or no one really wanted to "go there." :)
If housing assistance, such as Section 8 is designed to help tenants, why not give them the funds direc...
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I just signed up to Biggerpockets and live in Simi Valley. Since I live in outside the LA area, investing locally is way out of reach. The idea of investing out of area is a bit scary, so turnkey looks ve...