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I'm researching to build a plan to buy my first STR. What are the pros and cons of: 1) Buying a property nearly ready to rent and compete in its market. I.e., there are likely relatively few improvements to be made...
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my and my brother bought a 3 family home in pawtucket, RI. I have about 25k and I wanted to try to get another 3 family home only in my name in pawtucket, RI . The mortgage broker said because its the same type of pro...
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Hello BP,
I'm a rookie investor looking to work with partners on Rent by the Room strategy. I will be looking for duplexes and SF to do this. I plan on living in the property in one of the rooms to start leasing to...
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A couple of weeks ago I saw an email in my box from a company offering to loan me hard money/private money . After speaking with them and giving them a brief description of my goals, they wanted me to send bank statem...
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Hello, What is your favorite method of payment online for rent as a landlord? I was looking into rentpayment.com or yapstone.com for my units in Montreal but they only seem to work in the US. @Olivier LePage @Guillaum...
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Hi,
I recently purchased a investment property and originally planned to rent out, which is why I used a mortgage instead of cash. If i sell it, I may make about 20k (rate of return is about 75%). And I can...
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Hi Bigerpocket comunity,I've bought the SFR house six months ago that had made two separate units ,one is upper floor unit and the other is basement unit and rent them both .The people who've rent the upper unit are...
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Hi , I am Kamal Sidhu from Bay Area (East Bay), I am Real Estate Agent.I am new to biggerpockets community. I am here to learn from the members and offer my advice. I got my Real Estate license in California and focu...
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Can someone explain to me how Self Directed IRAs work. I tried to do a search but kept getting an error page.
How many have bought based on a nice list of value added (VA) possibilities and then crushed it with higher rents or income based on those VA elements? The short answer is few..... An ethical seller will in fact leave...