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My husband and I are considering listing me as a Real Estate Professional on our taxes for 2021, and we are looking for others who have done this successfully so we can get some more detailed information on it. We as...
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I've been investing in real estate for 15-20 years. I used the infamous BRRRR method to purchase beat-up single-family homes and turn them into rental properties. With my background as a mortgage broker, I was able ...
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So I'm currently in the process of purchasing my first deal! A fourplex here in San Antonio for $108K (Owner wants of the rental game). My intentions are to perform the Brrr strategy so I will also be borrowing an add...
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Have you ever had a lender tell a prospective buyer of one of your flips that within the first six months of you purchasing, rehabbing and listing the property, they (the lender) wouldn't loan on a property that wa...
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I've got two vacancies coming up in the next two months and as of right now I don't have any formal written tenant screening criteria. My price range tends to attract a decent number of tenants with bad histories (cri...
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I have a problem tenant that does not pay rent on time or the way it is in the lease to be paid. Due on the 1st late fee on 5th. Direct deposit to bank. Almost every month I pick up cash on the 5th
Last month she t...
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'Tis the season for CPA hunting. And every year there're dozens of repetitive threads on this forum asking/debating/complaining about the CPA charges. I will try to assemble all related questions in this one long post...
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I gave Financial Freedom my credit card info so that they could bill me $3.95 to ship me a book. They ended up billing me $200 a month for several months before I realized what they had done.
My wife's a Realtor and...
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Has anyone ever heard of these guys? There is an old post about them about some work they did in Philly many years ago, but nothing recent. They are based in NJ. They apparently GUARANTEE 12% returns. I'm suspiciou...