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Dear Community,
I recently purchased a house at auction in Tacoma, WA. The property includes a small house with a detached garage, offering significant potential. However, a challenging situation has arisen: the prev...
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Just went into a recently vacated unit and found a "sex offender" letter on the fridge notifying my tenants that a sex offender just moved in to the 4-plex next to mine. Was this the reason my tenants moved? Who knows...
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Is it common to have to offer way under asking to make the numbers work or am I looking in the wrong market? Please note that I'm mostly exercising my ability to run the numbers. So the example house may simply be a b...
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I took out a hard money loan for a rehab project. Purchase price was $51,000 and the rehab escrow was $60,000. I've worked with this lender before and the fee is always 5 points plus $2500 with 1% of the loan to be...
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Or, more specifically WHO is a real estate investor?As the term is now used, a wide variety of activities, some having almost nothing to do with investing, many having only a passive association with real property are...
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How do you determine if you'll allows pets in your rental property? And what's the worst experience anyone has had when allowing pets in your rental property?
We had say an ad on hotpads advertising a house for rent to own lease offer, this appealed to me after being recently divorced. I had recently owned a house for 19yrs but had racked up a ton of debt in attorney fees. ...
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I have a possible tenant stating they do not have to pay a non refundable pet fee to have two small dogs live with them in our property because they are therapy dogs for her dad of which she is the caretaker for. To m...
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I recently made some tenants move out of their 2 bedroom apartment because they were allowing their dogs to urinate all over the floors and carpets. The downstairs neighbor said he'd never seen them take their dogs ...
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I'm an out of state investor from California with $150k in cash looking to buy a single family in either Philadelphia PA or Columbus Ohio.Which area would you recommend between these two?I'm leaning towards Philadelph...