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Hello All,When looking at properties it's obviously to everyone, even myself, to calculate the cash I need for a down payment, but I assume I will need to save up even more cash for the closing costs? Is this a fair a...
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I've come to a fork in the road and I need some guidance!!
I currently have a lot of personal debt and my goal is to become a full time buy and hold investor. I don't know if I should aggressively pay down m...
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My wife and I make about $100,000 a year total, we have ~$38,000 in student loans (total), we have no other debt, and we'd like to get started renting out properties. We currently live in a two bedroom apt that we onl...
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My wife and I have been living below our means for some time now so that we could save up to purchase an investment property. From countless hours of videos and conversations online and in person, multifamily is the r...
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Looking back now, if you had to go back to before you made your first purchase and only had $30K. How would you invest that $30K and what strategy would you implement?
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I’m not sure if I should start out by doing a fix/ flip. Do I have to have money saved up beforehand? Where do you usually find good house deals? Do I have to get a loan?
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Hi everyone, I have been reading books, blogs, attending webinars for about 3 months now. My goal is to buy my first property by year end. I obtained pre approval for an investment property and talked to a real estat...
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Are there alternatives out there to holding reserve funds in a savings account?
Short term bonds? GICs? Anything else?
It hurts me to see essentially nothing in interest on my reserve funds when I know there are bet...
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Hello BP community, need your thoughts. Getting a Multi family for 475K and the expenses including PM comes to around $1200 and will have around $3300 left. Reserving 10% for maintenance, I would be able to have $2900...
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New investor here. What's the best way to save and organize digital receipts and to snapshot paper receipts? is there a good phone app? or software to use? TIA