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Hi BP Fam,
I'm in Houston, TX working on leasing a 20K sq ft retail strip center. This is my first time screening tenants so I have a few questions.
1. What are the key criteria you use to screen tenants?2. How have...
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Does anyone have any experience with a virtual assistant helping manage your vacation rental business? I own 4 vacation rentals in the Palm Springs area and manage two others for other clients. And I have 2 more...
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I am about to acquire a property using cash so we can do a fast close. I am then going to finance it with standard mortgage. I thought I could deduct the mortgage interest from the loan but read somewhere I can't do...
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Hey Everyone-I'm just getting started on my business plan and read some great articles and outlines on the site. I'm curious if anyone has or would share an actual plan so I can kind of get an idea what the finished p...
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How do I find investors for a restaurant without prior year tax returns.
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Good morning BP!I am looking to purchase my first owner occupied multi family in February 2020. Right now I am working on gathering my team together. Reaching out to agents, getting contractor prices, looking for lend...
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Hello everyone! I was wondering if some experienced investors could weigh in on how they expanded past 10 properties? I know the first 4 are much easier to finance and then 5-10 have a much stricter set of guidelines ...
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I am looking at mixed use building for sale that has a drycleaners which is included with the acquisition of the building. What sort of analysis and due diligence is required here? How do you assess the business. I wo...
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Hello,
I am looking at building a primary residence with one of the large builders in my area. The Utah State Legislator passed a law last year overriding all HOA's allowing Primary Residences to have rentable ADU's...
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If I were to have a new home built, doing the general contracting myself using a bridge loan, would I be able to refinance the potential equity via the VA loan program? Example: total build out $175k...value $250k...c...