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Good evening and happy new year,I need input on something that seems too good to be true. I just got off the phone today with an investor-friendly real estate agent in another state (not NYS) who has a whole team behi...
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Chicago is a hot market now but the State, County and City all have significant public employee pension and healthcare debt (that cannot be reduced except maybe in a bankruptcy). Property taxes are already high, but ...
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For you "private lenders" what mistakes have you made? I'm wondering if private lenders are 1. willing to disclose mistakes and 2. what they did to correct it, if they did at all.
I just read about private lending, t...
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I just finished listening to podcast 257 and wonder which out of state places are probably the best to invest into for rental properties (not rehab) for 2018?
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So, since I've started as a pro member here on BP, a lot of the properties in my price range are all in run down neighborhoods with high crime. Does anyone have experience with these types of rentals? Is it just a ...
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I just finished reading Christine Karpinski's book 'How to Rent Vacation Properties by Owner' . The slant of it was that if you manage yourself and use portals like Airbnb, vrbo, etc. you can break even or even get po...
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Hi! I am considering buying a property from a TK provider in Memphis. But when I am searching the address on zillow or other sites, the home value appears half of what the TK company wants for the house. Are the price...
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I am current resident of Hoboken, NJ, and a yet-to-be property investor. I am currently looking for a great place to invest my money. I have spent a decent amount of time understanding the basics of equity investing...
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This flies in the face of everything that we have ever learned about retirement accounts. So I want to start this by stating that it is stupid for 99% of the people out there to cash out retirement accounts but I wou...