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For some background...I am currently a renter in the City of Chicago and am new to real estate investing. I can't yet afford to buy anything for myself in the city, let alone a multi-family, so I ended up buying my ve...
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Economic Update
(Monday, August 17, 2020)
The pandemic has reinforced and exacerbated many of the inequities in our soci...
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Can anyone recommend a good fertilizer that is chemical free? I'm asking about my personal residence.
I don't have a service come to spray my lawn because I am anti-chemicals. We eat natural and organic food and I a...
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I'm evaluating an apartment complex (two buildings) where the owner pays water, gas and sewers. During the inspection I noticed that some toilets have constantly running water and the wall heaters were still heating d...
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Hi BP,I just had brand new tenants moved into my upper duplex and everything has been going great. Today they texted me telling me that they are very nervous about the ceiling which has some large cracks in it and se...
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Hello BP! I'm taking @Brandon Turner's advice and starting my own meetup. We plan to keep it consistent in terms of time, date (3rd Tues. of each month), and location. I've posted it on Meetup.com, here on BP in the e...
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Military / Veteran Investors - what has been your best investment this year? I've done a bunch of investing this year, but for me, it was investing in myself, my network, and my education by joining a Mastermind Group...
We are having to evict a tenant who has never signed a lease. What to do if he doesn’t leave voluntarily? They always paid cash, so there are no checks of record.The tenant has lived in a basement room in a large rent...
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Hi BiggerPockets, My name is David Krenz, I moved to Los Angeles three years ago from Nashville, TN and worked in the Coldwell Banker Beverly Hills office with numerous multi-million-dollar transactions in the Westsid...