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Some time ago, I stopped contributing to my day job's 401k. I wanted to take every penny I earned and make it available for REI - the annual 1.25% increase over the last decade wasn't cutting it from the 401k. Howeve...
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Hello everyone!I am a software engineer at Amazon looking to diversify some of my investments into real estate. I have become obsessed with learning everything I can about real estate through biggerpockets. Currently ...
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My brother and sister in law are realtors in Nj and they spoke about the impact Grant Cardone had on them. So I started looking into his methods and strategy. I came across a video where he discusses never to look for...
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New to us STR. Will be adding smart TV’s. Do we really need cable TV service? Do you provide it for your guests? Any complaints if you do not?
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I came up with a new way to quickly evaluate if a deal will cashflow.I call it the 10% Rule: if annual gross revenue is at least 10% of the financed amount (after putting 25% down) then it’ll most likely cashflow.For ...
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Hey BPI'm looking for advice, encouragement, anecdotes, anything really that can help me find the spirit to keep at this.We have had two seriously fantastic deals slip out of our hands at the last minute. I know, onl...
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In the time i've been studying wholesaling many people says that finding buyers first is best because you know what your looking for. I agree somewhat, but how will you attract buyers with no deal to preset them with.
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Hello. We just got out first duplex. We are house hacking it. With current tenant renting, we pay a little less than half the mortgage with them paying the rest. Our plan was to build our property numbers by house hac...
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How did you transition from 20% down on turn key/mostly ready properties to BRRRRing and/or any other sort of buying off market deals cash? Given my market, Dallas, every time I save 40kish my first thought is let’s g...