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PART 1: INVESTING IN REAL ESTATE, the Why, the Where, the What, the How, and the How Much:
In mid-2017 my wife and I decided to go back to what had been one of our passions in the mid-90's, the ownership and manageme...
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I am in the position to go green aka electric thanks to solar, the numbers all make sense to move in this direction. My net out of pocket expense is roughly $14K, finance it with a low payment, and rapidly pay it off....
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I have lived in the San Francisco bay area for the last 15 or so years, and am anxious to start doing some buy-and-hold investing. However, it seems that price-to-rent ratios are solidly over 30 in my area, and gener...
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I realized in February of 2011 that my ladder was leaning against the wrong financial building. Sooooo, I started to use my savings, refinancing my personal home, and taking out my IRA’s and 401K money through the cou...
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I got a lot of questions on my Instagram yesterday about the email we wrote to our tenants addressing this outbreak so I decided to include the letter we wrote here in case it helps anybody :) I think a lot of landlor...
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Hi all, I have a few questions. I'm very new to real estate investing, and have just spent the past 2 weeks exploring my area (Charlotte NC). Granted, I've only been looking on the MLS...which leads me to my first que...
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Sorry if this is the wrong place to question this, but why should any buyer or seller use a realtor? I have been having this argument over the last 2 years because in my opinion (base on real facts) Realtors are the t...
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After my most recent post on Realtor.com projecting Stockton to be the #4 metro market in the nation in 2018, I've received the same question over and over and over again:"But WHY Stockton? What's so great about it? A...
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https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/201...here is the truth !! capitalism at work supply demand at work.. Bubble NOT..
Here is brief story about my first flip. My name is Dakota Coburn and I decided a few years ago that becoming a real estate investor was the right career path. I spent 12 month researching, reading, analyzing, going...