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I was talking to a man a week or so ago, and he said that his friend used to buy properties that were a few days prior to foreclosure. He said it kept the bank from having to execute the eviction process, it salvaged ...
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Short-term rentals have become an increasingly popular investment strategy for real estate investors to increase wealth and passive income. STRs have very substantial tax advantages compared to other strategies as lon...
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Okay so here is my issue I ran into. I talked to a realtor last night he claims to be a local investor. Now his type of investing is not cash flow but long term so he buys and holds and then in 20 years or such he sel...
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Hello fellow BPs! As a new member this is my very first post on the forums; with many more to come I hope, I'd like to say hello!With all that I have been learning about multi-family rentals, I came across AirBnB and ...
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Hi Team! I was wondering if you wouldn't mind providing feedback on my MTR listing. We have it posted on Airbnb/VRBO/CHBO/Zillow as an MTR for the past 2 month and haven't had a single booking. I've lowered my monthly...
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Listed our first STR property last month and started using Guesty for Hosts as my management software to consolidate across platforms. Everything was fine when just using Airbnb (though you could argue against needing...
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hello I am new to this and looking at a property with cast iron pipes under the house built in 1957. There are no leaks. Was wondering how urgent is it to change to pvc? Also what would the total cost of replacing pv...
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We started buying this year and have three properties. One came with tenants, one is mid remodel and one we filled in June on a 12 month lease. So, until now, month 5 of that 12 month lease things have been fine. PM h...
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Hi everyone,
Just got my first booking and my guest was asking if they could check out like 4-5 hours later than my check out time. Luckily my calendar is still pretty wide open so I’m able to make this exception plu...
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Hello Everyone,
Yesterday I had a meeting with Tomie Raines Realtor Inc in East Lansing. Everything went really well and the training manager informed me on the expenses of real estate training at the company, prior ...