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Hello everyone, for the past several months I have been passively educating myself on RE investing by listening to BP podcasts, reading through these forums, and analyzing some multifamily properties using the BP calc...
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Hi All,
My name is Andrew and I'm from the Southeast PA area (Philly suburbs) and have been involved in real estate since 2006 when I purchased and "house hacked" my first home. To date I've been focused on buy and ...
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I live in Southern California, and will be for the foreseeable future. From listening to a few podcasts and reading posts here, it seems like California is not the best place to start for newbies with not a lot of cap...
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I have about $360K liquid available. I have no real estate investments. If you were in my position, what would you do? Invest in a single family, more than 1 single family, multifamily, etc? Looking for some diffe...
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Hello everyone,
I'm a new member here and have been doing a lot of reading and trying to use the search function as much as possible before asking questions. But now I have one for everybody and I would greatly appr...
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I just thought I would share because I'm pretty excited really!
Being rather intrigued with real estate since I was 20 or so I have finally acquired some property. Circa 2005-2006 I built a couple of spec houses and ...
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since here in Sacramento CA , the prices are so high and there are so many cash buyer investors , that there is barley any inventory left for new investors like myself , is it smart to go ahead and buy houses fr...
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Hi guys!You have helped me a lot already to understand things about real estate. I have realized that I have been doing things wrong...(Like negative cash flow on my two rentals, etc) ...So I figured that may be you c...
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Hey Folks, I have several friends who have properties that they manage themselves. I am trying to build my portfolio as a property manager but most are unwilling to turn over their properties because they do not see ...
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So my lender did a pre approval on me about 4 times and I confirmed with them several times that I would be able to get a loan on a non-owner occupied duplex. Fast forward to 2 weeks before closing (yesterday), my len...