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Economic Update
(Monday, August 17, 2020)
The pandemic has reinforced and exacerbated many of the inequities in our soci...
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Good morning BP members! This is the start of my investing career and first actual post. I am currently working a typical 8-5 job through the week. We have two kids under 3 yo, my wife is also working late into the ev...
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Hello, we had hired a contractor back in September to gut and renovate our 3 bathrooms and kitchen, as well as apply 600 sq ft of flooring. The contract stated timeline is an estimated 8-10 weeks. As of January, we ba...
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HI All,First post on BP! I am a relatively new RE investor in the greater Milwaukee area. Just over 1 year ago, my wife and I bought a Duplex on the border of Shorewood and Whitefish Bay. For those outside of the a...
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Hey guys, I'm an investor living in Airdrie right now, and I have been holding off to purchase a rental unit for the past year or so due to inflation and the forever-rising interest rate.However, I plan to buy one thi...
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Would it be too much to say that Brandon Turner and Bigger Pockets helped us thrive in the era of COVID? I don’t think so. We’ve gone from two full-time jobs to one and we’ve become accredited investors almost by acci...
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I was able to get three cash flow positive properties with solid CoC returns during the downturn, and part of the way up, but in the greater Seattle area it is getting harder and harder. Prices are too high relative t...
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I have the opportunity to buy income properties from a company called Strongbrook. I have come across BiggerPockets (thank goodness) and have read a forum on Strongbrook that has made me wary. I too have had some...
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Hey BP, Curious if any of you guys have any experience and or feedback on Sean Terry's RVM (Ringless Voicemail) Lead Machine? It almost seems too good to be true.
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Folks - I am a beginner real estate investor in NJ and one of my subject properties is a foreclosure. I used Frank Gallinelli's book What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to know about Cash flow on one of my subject p...