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Aside from the standard updates like new appliances, flooring, paint, etc, how do you determine what to upgrade in a rental? I'm assuming you'd base it off what type of people you want living there, what the potential...
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Your Real Estate Deal Won't Be a '72 Pinto: Follow This Advice!Stephen Covey, famed author of "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People," claimed an important habit in achieving success was to "Begin With the End In Mi...
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We flipped our second house (did several manufactured homes first), and hopefully closing next month. Not going to make much, and trying to figure out why. The house went on market 7/1/17. So the HML payments reall...
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Good Evening All, Thank you to everyone that has provided help and responded to my posts. Right now I am working on a scope of work for my contractors. I know I am not telling them how to do their job in the scope of ...
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I have been buying mainly turn-key properties as of late, with minimal repairs. Every time something breaks, I usually do a few things. I look it up on the internet, I Google it, read a few books on it, all to find ou...
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Just wanted to create a thread where I post updates on our basement apartment that we had built out from an unfinished basement with the full intent of it being a rental from the start. This build was fully laid out t...
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Hey All - I have a few rental properties out in Boise where things were pretty easy going, but just moved to Seattle and am looking for our first primary residence. We've got a healthy budget, but get scared away from...
Hey BP!Just want to share my story fr those Veterans out there looking to do the same thing I did. I utilized my VA loan to purchase a house that is now a rental and then after a year, purchased a 2nd property with th...
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Good morning BP,I saw a post this morning that got me thinking about the biggest issue when it comes to flipping. The biggest issue many of my investors have run into is finding a great contractor. Finding the deal an...
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Hi Bigger Pockets Family, Im a Newbie Investor with 1 FLIP so Far, only to Break Even on my 1st Flip. Although Ive learned alot, what i need to improve on are Comps. Any suggestions or help, anyone could offer would T...