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Dear BP family.I'm thinking about doing direct mail marketing. I got like a stack of them from other investors and have been studying their messages. Some are obviously doing a 1031 exchange. What is interesting is...
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Back in July I was contacted by a "real estate investor" saying that he was looking for some people to come and join his office and learn real estate investing. Now this was the first time that I, at 19 years old, ha...
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Hi everyone. I've been lurking here for a while, reading and educating myself, and I'm about 1-2 years away from being able to pull the trigger and get started with real estate. I'm looking to get started by investing...
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I have a property to wholesale that has its certificate of meth abatement after someone smoked there. It cannot be found on any list as being a meth house and is totally expunged from the list. The sheetrock has not b...
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Yesterday I closed on my 8th rental unit. Its a 900 ft 2/1 that I bought for 54k, it's probably worth 70k as is. Terms were 5k down, and $450 principal-only payments till its paid off, so a little over 9 years. The fi...
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Today I set up a time to sign a contract with a guy for a property we had been negotiating since Wednesday. He kept pushing the meeting back and then finally put me on the phone with his uncle, a supposed "realtor" wh...
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I've got a sticky situation I was hoping for some perspective on. I just (4/23) received an email in response to mine (3/31) to my tenants asking if they planned to renew next month. It stated that they (tenants 2&...
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I just closed on a VA cash out refi in October, 2017. Does anyone know the soonest I can do a VA IRRL may be?
I own a single family home in Marysville OH but moved to NYC over 10 years ago. I entered into a Land Contract with someone and they have been making the mortgage payment but they were supposed to have bought the home...
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I just purchased a property through a wholesaler. Is that wholesaling fee supposed to be capitalized or expensed?