Hi everyone, I'm a newbie to BP and REI and very excited to get started! One of the biggest concerns (or misunderstandings) I have holding me back is the argument over whether to carry long-term mortgages on rental pr...
All,with a quick background, I am new to REI. I promised myself that I would purchase my first investment property in 2017, and have really started to sharpen the axe if you will. With that being said, I really wante...
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Good morning all my fellow BP'ers. I wanted to share my excitement with you. I have been researching REI for the past 3 months: reading BP, listening to all the of podcasts, reading "rich dad poor dad", "millionaire ...
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Good night everyone. A little late to be posting but wanted to get some of those mid-night thoughts flowing. My wife and I currently have a great house that has the almighty low interest rate of 3.5%. Now the house is...
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I've been doing some research on loans and the more I'm finding the less I want to even mess around with it. I've been listening to Brandon Turner's book "Rental Property investing" and just finished all of Ohio's pre...
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I'm in MA and I've been scanning the MLS for a month now and there is not that much around me that I feel is a good flip. Now, maybe I don't know what to look for but it seems most houses are way too expensive so even...
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I posted this on the Facebook group in hopes of inspiring others with my story, so thought I post on here as well to reach and inspire more people.“Hello all my amazing friends it has been A LONGGG time coming but, I ...
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Hello all!My name's Roc, I've been interested in real estate ever since reading rich dad poor dad when I was 16, I realized I need to be on the investor/owner side of life so I started changing my mindset to be that w...
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The appraisal district increased our property by approximately $500k / 58% in 2018 without any corresponding changes to the property or neighborhood. Our protest firm failed to attend the informal and formal hearings....
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I have been in the market for an investment prop. I found something. It's a wholesale deal. So the buyers agent and sellers agent from the same company, I feel like the obligation to the buyer is not the same when ...