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Welcome to A Skeptical Dude’s Take on Real Estate: a weekly frank, hopefully insightful, dive into real estate and financial markets. From one real estate investor to another.
Coming at you live from Nashville, no A...
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I get about 8 to 10 cards every week, asking to buy my house. I notice that they ALL have the same message. 1. will buy it in any condition, no need to make repairs.2. can close in 2 weeks3. cash offer!This could ge...
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Hello, I'm looking to buy my first rental property but am not finding anything seemingly worthwhile within 3-4 hours drive of our area (greater Seattle). I don't have many out of state connections and am wary of pulli...
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Hello, I am a real estate agent in Seattle Washington and a part-time real estate investor. I recently started working with Do Hard Money. Just curious if anyone out there has successfully closed a deal with this com...
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Hi everyone.I'm a mid-30's newb RE investor in OKC with 1 accidental rental, hoping to eventually acquire enough units to escape the rat race, hopefully within the next 3-5 yrs. I don't have a lot of capital to get st...
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Hello BP! Recently my husband have been discussing the idea of investing in a beachy vacation rental (VRBO or Airbnb) investment. Short term, we would like to use it once a year when we visit family in Florida and r...
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Tenant ordered mold inspection directly without my approval. He wanted me to reimburse the inspection cost $500. I didn't reimburse him. The mold spore counts is actually very low. However, since the inspection ...
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I bought a house near the college my son attends - house hacking via his college fund. He is going to live there with three friends. The plan is that my son and I will be listed as the landlords and the other three w...
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With the Real Estate Market being down and properties being cheap I was thinking instead of going to the bank to get a loan to buy these properties that i should instead buy 3-4 of these properties with my own cash. ...
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Based on numbers below only, considering the house is a small 3/1.5 cape, with very little to no updates since it's purchase in '97... where would you highly experienced SFH investors structure your bids? I know t...