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Hello BP Community, I am a 23 year old from the Boston area looking to learn more about buy and hold properties as a means of creating passive income. I work an office job that allows me to consume audio media for the...
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Gas prices are really starting to accelerate with the national average at $3.40, which is historically very high. Oil is only just over $80 a barrel, and I believe $150 a barrel was the ATH several years ago. GDP only...
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Illinois is enacting a statewide minimum wage of $15 per hour by 2025. Have any experienced landlords had this happen in their state or city and what have been the effect on rents? Drastic increases or gradual incr...
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*This link comes directly from our calculators, based on information input by the member who posted.Duplex in CO, outside Denver in Longmont. I am told this is an up and coming area with ...
Hello,I had a tenant last winter and the heat in his unit was supplemented by the unit above him.It gets really cold down there in winter but he chose not to have free heat and sealed the vents tightly with an aluminu...
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As regular readers of this site know there’s plenty of sentiment (and evidence) that we’re headed for some bad times, maybe even some truly TERRIBLE times.
I have two questions:
1) Are you worried and, if so, ho...
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I offered on a property done by rehabbers. They want to make their profit and I want to make my returns. Originally, they priced the house at $94,900, someone else offered and financing fell through. I don't know if t...
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Hi everyone, I recently purchased a duplex that I plan to house hack. I'm going to be living on the 2nd floor and rent out the 1st floor unit. We have a shared basement with 1 washer and 1 dryer that we share. my prob...
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Hey,a very interesting historical analysis and model of rents in San Francisco (with data source on GitHub).For numerical guys such as @Brian Burke, @J. Martin, @Minh Le etc etcSome excerpts:"Overall [rents], they wen...
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I have heard many people talk about how finding small multi family in their area is hard, and I don’t know if I’m not looking in the right place but it’s been hard to find for me too. With house hacking as the first d...