New to investing - what’s a good rule of thumb to budget as a cushion for normal home maintenance and repairs (IE: roof replacement, HVAC replacement, etc) for an older home versus a newer home?
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Investment Info:
Single-family residence buy & hold investment in Des Moines.
Purchase price: $284,000
Cash invested: $14,000
We are hacking our home, we have completed a "livable" mother-in-law ...
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TLDR: I went from aggressively investing constantly and deploying capital, to being in this weird COVID "wait and see" sellers market. I just started buying a year ago.Covid created this insane sellers market, especia...
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BRRR is a great way to grow your portfolio. What you do is rehab and then cash out refinance after rehabbing either all or a majority of the funds to help finance your next investment. I sold this client their last de...
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I have a business with two other partners. All of us have invested an equal amount of money as well as time. We have a handful of properties now where our strategy is to buy, fix up, and then rent the property. My que...
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We are in the midst of a rehab (doing the work ourselves) and looking to see if anyone has a good app or website they use to keep track of receipts, able to itemize each cost and then export to CSV or PDF for tax and ...
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I have been investing in real estate in both the UK and USA since 1998. I moved from the UK to the US in 1998 where I started and ran a successful software company designing software for the online billing community f...
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Hello, my name is Caden and I am 18 years old. I currently work full time while also taking a course online to attain my real estate license. My company is also about to send me to college to take a course to become a...
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We own 34 units in Central Maine and want to really step back into the shadows and have the portfolio managed. However, I LOVE the paperwork and reporting, balancing checkbooks, creating documents, etc. and want to ke...
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on average just starting out and basically working by myself how long should it take to wholesale your first house? any feedback would and will be greatly appreciated!