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This is my 10,000th forum post on BP Nation!
As a long time member and contributor to the site, I am quite proud of this accomplishment and I have seen this site grow tremendously over the years, particularly this yea...
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This year more than ever we thought it would be appropriate to give something to our tenants. If you paid on time all year and had been with us since Dec 2019 we gave them $100 gift card to a local business. Half th...
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Single-family home sales fell 19.1 percent year-over-year, with 6,199 units sold, ending nine consecutive months of positive sales;The Days on Market (DOM) figure for single-family homes was unchanged at 58 days;Total...
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Hey guys I'm having a hard time choosing weather or not to buy a single family home or a duplex for my first investment property, my problem is I have like 130k saved so I'm skeptical about buying a duplex because the...
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Greetings! I'm trying to determine how successful my house hack has been. Even if its not a big win, it has been a hair pulling, daily crying jag, killing the GC dream inducing, learn the hard way, LEARNING experience...
I went to tenant/possession court today. My goal was to determine if it is a good method of finding disillusioned landlords who would want to sell their properties and get out of being a landlord. I had some time to...
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I have a motivated seller that has a problem tenant. The seller just celebrated her 87th bday a few days ago. The seller has not payed mortgage in 4 years and is highly motivated to sell before she loses ANOTHER house...
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I'm preparing to close on my first property next week in Jacksonville, FL. Everything has been going well so far, and the plan was to immediately start renovating both units. However, we just learned that a tenant i...
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Hi BP Community!We are getting set to close our biggest CRE investment here in about two weeks and since it is a hybrid of creative financing and an SBA 504 loan, we wanted to share some lessons learned since we have ...
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I am well aware of most of the tax benefits for an active REI or as the sponsor of a syndication, but are the tax benefits the same or different for a passive investor “member” of a syndication?
I am about to run a s...