Because it’s hard and taking the first step in the hardest! We have money ready to go and I always wonder why people who seem to do better than us, don’t invest in RE. But the emotional roller coaster has almost don...
I own a SFH in California which I rented out October 2018. Since day 1, the tenants have been contacting me on a daily/weekly basis requesting repairs.Some of these repairs are warranted (replaced the water heater, fi...
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I'm a relatively new private investor and have begun experimenting with the crowdfunding sites, to get into a wider variety of deals at a lower contribution if the terms and restrictions turn out to be viable, or a...
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10:51 pm, I get a call from a tenant at my duplex. She tells me that her roommate is having seizures, that she's called 911, and that 10-12 of her roommate's friends are streaming out of the apartment as we speak. I h...
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Big question - why hasn't anyone applied data science and machine learning in the real estate domain?With the recent (7 years?) advances in natural language processing, image recognition and the validation of various ...
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Looking to buy turnkey in Memphis. I also am buying one local in Utah (probably a duplex). My question: I am very busy with 4 kids and a profession and am thinking Turnkey would be my best option. I would like to hear...
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Hello everyone. I've been doing some research on Lead Propeller, reading forum post on BP about it, etc., and I'm just about 100% sure that I want to switch my two websites over to them. However, most of the reviews...
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After years of interest in real estate, I found BiggerPockets in February of this year... and today, I closed on my first 4-family rental property. Here are the numbers and some photos... plus four things that helped ...
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I live up in the Bay Area, have a nice job and a wonderful house, but still with a wife and two young kids, feels like you can't get ahead here because its so expensive. Also hard to do any real estate investing when...
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Are you prepared to do what it takes to SURVIVE this business?Are you REALLY prepared to make those tough calls?Can you push emotion to the side for the betterment of your business?Are you willing to do EVERYTHING in ...