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I’m in year 1—I have been eyeballing RE for years though. I have recently been reading a RE book every 7-10 days and man, have you ever been like “THIS IS A LOT OF INFO!!”I want to do this, and I do believe RE can and...
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I'm looking at doing a rehab of a 4 unit building (3100 sqft) and I was wondering what people thought about flooring. I don't want to use the home depot bargain bin flooring, as I have not had good ex...
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I'm running some calculations on a duplex that I'm looking at, and things don't seem to be adding up. This is my first real estate venture, so I want to pose the question to the community for advice.The duplex is in ...
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Hi all, While in college I worked fulled time at a fortune 500 company. I was able to put away a good amount in my 401k in the two years I have been at the company. I am now leaving the company and am going to roll my...
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I realize there is no sure fire way to guarantee a lender will agree to a short sale and in a lot of cases it seems to come down to "the bottom line", will it be it more profitable; or should I say less costly; tha...
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I was asked a question in another thread and when I started to answer the question, I realized it was a topic that was quite deep and may be good for a separate discussion.... Originally posted by @Bryan K.:
@Marcia ...
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according to a book that I just read.A number of years ago I went to a big real estate investors convention with 1,500 attendees; there they did a survey and about 1/3 didn't own any real estate, about 1/3 only owned ...
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So I get a text today telling me that "Yesterday afternoon the CO² alarm went off and the furnace stopped putting out heat".
I let her know that she should have notified me immediately and called the fire d...
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I wanted to share a story with all of you that I'm sure you can relate to in one way or another. This will be more a blog type post and I'm posting it here simply because traffic is higher here.
What I'd like to do ...
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I see lots of talk about cash flow and the necessity of cash flow to achieve financial freedom. Both my wife and I have good paying W-2 jobs and are comfortable making investments that don't cash flow. Is there a bet...