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With elevated housing costs, and reduce interest rates, I am pondering investing money into crowd funding or private hard money loans? Can anyone with experience with either of these offer suggestions from their exper...
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So I have 2 duplexes in a city about a half hour away from where I live. My lease gives tenants a 4 day grace period to pay the rent. I always call the day before the first of the month and let them know that i'll b...
Our Historic Wash Park Renovation Investment was sure to make us an easy profit. It's a beautiful 2 story on the park. We used a bank for a construction loan we had used before. But, when the budget was mysteriously d...
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Im in the process of getting a duplex under contract. The home owner and I agreed on a price of 25,000. But he says he wants his money in 3 separate checks (9k, 9k, 7k). He says he wants it this way, so he's not audit...
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Hi All,So I have been around BP for a year now soaking up all I can. I am 56 I finally lost my IT job of 19 years so I really want to try and get started with this RE gig. I have about $200K in my 401K that I need som...
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I've read advice here on BP saying that it doesn't make sense to hold RE in a "tax efficient account" because you "lose all your tax benefits of RE". I find that puzzling and I'm looking for clarification. Sure you ...
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Leaning on the BP Community once again ... this time for an SDIRA question about structuring projects to fund with SDIRA funds.I am working on a development project with a partner that is borrowing money from private ...
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How long did it take you to make your first deal ?
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Very soon I will be closing on a 12 unit multiplex in the chicago land area. my largest acquisition to date. I will have doubled my units to 25 units in a little over 18 months in the real estate game. Which has me no...
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my wife and I just bought a house and it appraised for 43k over what we're buying it for at closing. we are in the process of renovating that house so hopefully we can increase that value even further. I've been look...