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Hi everyone,
I currently live in the Bay Area (California) and I’m interested in getting into real estate investment. My goal is to start out buying a multi-unit property in early 2021. Ideally, it’d be somewhere in...
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I "kinda, sorta" closed on my first Duplex today. This will be my first multi-family and my third investment overall. I'm still a novice compared to many folks in the community, which is why I'm posting here in "Start...
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Newbie question here: I'm looking to buy a Class A triplex or quad within 10 minutes of my house and doing property management and maintenance myself. I live close to a large university. Of the 20 recently-sold small ...
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I reached out to a lender and I was told I had to have capital of my own. I thought you didn’t have to have capital? He told me any lender is going to require me to have capital. He basically told me to save up some m...
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Hi everyone,I'm looking to start my real estate investing journey and have been looking at Multi-Family properties in the areas around Cleveland, OH. I prefer something that needs little to no rehab to start out. If ...
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Looking to buy my next deal but prices here in Southern California is outrageous. I have been researching in other markets out of state, particularly in the MidWest. Would it be reasonable to just and stay put and inv...
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I have had a interesting discovery recently. At the end of last year, I was finishing updating my financials and I realized that my networth had reached over 1 million dollars. That had been one of my financial goals ...
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I see that it is a common goal for Buy & Hold investors to own several rental properties. Wouldn't having multiple mortgages expose someone to an excessive amount of risk? Suppose there's a market crash, rental ra...