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I’m curious what the community here has to say.
My dads in the car business and swears by leasing. I’m all about wealth building and assets and I think buying is the better option.
I’m currently torn between buying...
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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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I guess my question is how accurate do you find the 50% expense rule?
If you gross rents are $2500, a margin of error of 10% on your expenses would result in a $125 difference in cash flow. This might result accepti...
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Hey everyone,I have a friend who I have been looking to partner with in a three or four flat in Chicago. Cap rate in the areas we wanted to buy are so bad (1 or 2%), even for the add value plays (which I think in Chic...
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Why would real estate agents who claim to be "investor friendly", not want to work with an investor who is wholesaling?
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I recently wrote an article on 3 Web Sites that really transformed our real estate investing business from 2010 to now. At a time when we were working hard to improve every facet of our company, we also began to use ...
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I've found a few deals but the properties are inhabited by tenants who are either in the process of being evicted or they need to be evicted for being behind on rent. Should this stop me from buying the properties? Wi...
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I'm close to completing my second flip, I just listed the property on my local MLS when I had an idea:
Why not cash out refi for more than I have in the property.
I bought the house for $40k in cash, I have less tha...
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It was a year ago that I closed on my first flip. The night before I closed, I almost walked out on a $4,900 deposit because I got scared. Thankfully, my step father was good enough to walk through with me and ca...