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Hi all,This post is to introduce myself and get involved with the BP community. My wife and I are NC residents near Durham and are finally ready to invest in real estate. We have owned 3 primary residences and sold 2 ...
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We are new investors and looking to put an offer down on our first property in the next week as a STR. My question is for tax purposes, are we hurting ourselves in terms of the qualification of materially participati...
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Some of the pricing seems very optimistic on Airdna for the areas I'm looking at, compared with what I'm actually seeing on Airbnb. Do all of you experienced STR'ers find their data reliable? I'm mostly concerned with...
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Hey everyone,My website is getting close to completion.Please look at my signature line for the website to review.My site works on serving 2 objectives.1. Working closely with commercial sellers and direct buyers.2. P...
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Hello, I'm about to furnish a house and put it on Airbnb...in the podcast about Airbnb, she mentioned her house rules... just wondering if anyone had a good list of house rules they'd like to share, or if we as a grou...
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We have a farm in the NC mountains with 4 vacation rental cabins. Our local rental management company take 25% and we pay for all listings on VRBO/Homeaway/TripAdvisor/Flipkey, photos, videos, etc. They only take 10% ...
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I currently own 2 rentals and am always conscious of the scalability. My cleaners have been missing a few small things as of late, and it seems to be sucking up some time and energy. My initial solution was a checkl...
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Hello BiggerPockets -
I’m new to real estate and am starting to model out numbers. I’m in brainstorming mode right and would appreciate any input.
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In five years time, replace my salaried income with ...
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What do you do when a tenant dies on your property? Or dies elsewhere and never returns to your property? Especially when they live alone. In an effort to be proactive, I'm trying to think through scenarios and ...
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