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Holy crap! Marketing is expensive! I went to listsource.com to build my list and had 10,000 people or so on it. I filtered the duplicates and only had names where the mailing and property addresses were whole. Further...
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I'm currently thinking about becoming a realtor in Ohio, I'm currently an Real-Estate investor the reason why I want to be in realtor mainly because of the education and to expand to meet like minded individuals like ...
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I've been in the Property Management industry for around 10 years and it always baffles me when landlords choose to manage their own units. I'm curious to hear reasons why you WOULD want to manage your own units. Bel...
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Hi, I have one property in Florida managed currently by a management company. Our tenants' dog damaged the window screens. The company is saying that we can't take the screen repair out of the deposit since we didn'...
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From what I've read, it seems the #1 problem with contractors is not getting the work done when they said they would. Well what if penalties were built into the contract, so that for every day work is not completed pa...
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Hey all this is my first post, I am new to this site and may not understand all the rules just yet but please humor me as I am in a situation. I am in a 2 bed rental with 2 adults and a 7 year old boy in Colorado (3 t...
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Hello,I got an email this evening from my tenants about them deciding to get a divorce. They have lived in the house since December 2014 and are great tenants overall. Of course though, I want to protect everyone's in...
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We are about to buy or first investment property. I can get a mortgage rate of either 4.375% with 0 points, or 4.125% with 1 point. My calculations show me a break even time of about 5 years. We have plans to keep the...
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Am I missing something?Commercial Property Valuation = NOI (Net Operating Income)/ Cap Rate (5.5%)$7,291,636=401040/0.055If I could acquire this brand new construction for less than $3 Million, is it worth it? and is ...
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Hello,
I am based out of San Diego and getting into real estate investments. I am looking at building my portfolio in rental properties. I am thinking of buying properties in the range of 50k - 70k. Which areas aroun...