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New investor here, just starting out. The wife and I had been thinking about this for a while now, buying either a lakefront property, or beach-area property as an investment. We're not looking so much to make a sho...
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Hey, I don't know if this is an appropriate forum for my question, but I'll give it a go:
A couple years ago I bought into a timeshare. (Yes, now I know that that's a scary sentence, but I didn't know it at the time....
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I'm in the process of closing on a house. The house was purchased 2010 and has had extensive rehabilitation work completed. Everything has been replaced (plumbing, electrical, heat pump, central A/C, etc). The owner c...
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Hello All!I am a noob to the real estate world, and have been consuming as much information as possible in the last few months. Upon much consideration, my fiancé and I have decided to make our first home purchase a ...
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Hey everyone! I’m 22 and me and my wife will be moving back to the states in December and I will be leaving active duty In about 2.5 years. We are wondering if we should buy at our next base and rent it out when we le...
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Im looking to get my first property off of a friends father. its a 2 bed 1 bath single family home in a good location fully remodeled and rent ready he wants 45k for it but would probably take 40. I'm wondering where ...
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Hi everyone,I'm hoping someone can help me here. My wife and I had some bandit cards printed up stating if anyone found us a deal, we'd pay them a $500 referral fee. We were told by a fellow investor friend that thi...
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We (myself and my wife) listened to our first podcast in mid-December and after doing some research, we are digging in and making REI our next focus as I plan my exit strategy out of the US Army. We live in Fort Walt...
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http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/01/heads-up-homeowners-mortgage-interest-deduction-on-trumps-chopping-block.htmlThe mortgage interest deduction is already capped at loans up to $1 million if you're married and filing join...
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With the expansion of transit lines in the Los Angeles area moving at a historic rate and the rise of property cost (rent and own) in many areas, I see a lot of action in formerly less desirable neighborhoods. What ar...