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Greetings all,My wife and I will soon be newbie rental property owners. My father-in-law owns approximately 60 units in the Salem, OR area. Unfortunately he was recently diagnosed with advanced colon and liver cancer ...
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To Fellow Investors,
At what point in your business did you or would you choose to add part or full-time staff instead of using independent contractors?
What position did you or would you hire first?
Thanks for you...
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I've been renting SFRs for about 15 years now and I'd like to step up to a larger commercial investment. I'm working with a local broker and he's presented me with this deal: Self-storage facility located in Oregon. P...
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Hey fellow investors!I'm a new investor living in San Francisco, but am looking to purchase my first investment property in the Sacramento metro area. I'm looking at SFH and duplexes at this point, but would be open ...
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I want to connect with others in the assisted living space. I am currently in NJ but focusing on Texas. Where are you all from?
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Especially @James Hamling , just read a market statistic and its mind blowing.The age of first time home buyer in California is now 49 years old, in 1980 it used to be 32 years old.In TX: 37 years old and FL is 42 ...
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What cities do you all consider the best long term investments? I've had my eyes on western suburbs of Detroit and suburbs of Dallas TX like Fort Worth.
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What are the reasons why millionaire and successful real estate investors lost it all during the crash? Was it over leverage? What does it really mean? Was it because of the neighborhood they've invested?
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Are there investors there making suburbs work? I feel like when I am here on BP and listen to the BP podcast, as well as talk to other friend investors, they are all in well known popular cities, or very proximal subu...
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I'm new to the whole STR business, exploring my options to invest in a good market. Lately, I have been looking at the properties in Kissimmee, FL. AirDNA score is good but I see there is lot of variation in housing ...