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Hi All, I may have an opportunity to purchase my first investment property. A friend of my fathers home is going to be auctioned on the courthouse steps 5/5. She is pretty desperate for someone to buy it before that ,...
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Hello Experts!I'm trying to list my property for sale on Trulia (No Broker). Does anyone know if this is free for me? Or do I need to be a real estate professional? From what I see online, it's free to list, but I alw...
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My question is how does the little guy investor get started and ACTUALLY find good deals? A lot of the market is controlled by the top investors and they usually hear about the good deals before they come on the marke...
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How can you get a good deal on the MLS meaning a property worth more than what your offering?
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I am getting conflicting information from various people abotu submitting the initial offer to BOA's equator system.
One person tells me that if your initial offer is not within 15% of the list price (which is a numb...
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This is going to be another one of those ultra basic questions, but one that´s been increasingly coming to mind (and I´ve yet to really get a conclusive answer).When it comes to making offers, how low do you go? I hea...
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So I have read and am following the Bigger Pockets Tenant Screening Guide, and it is very clear that this is a denial, and I understand the reasons for not renting to tenants to prior evictions, because they understan...
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I purchased my current primary residence (Portland, OR) back in October 2019 with a conventional loan. We rent out the top portion of the house while my financee and I live in the basement. There is a separate entranc...
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Earlier in the year my employer submitted my information for my w2 but it had an error on it. By the time it was noticed we were in the middle of the Covid crisis and the IRS was backed up. Because of that my employ...
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For those of you who use HELOCs for leverage to buy more properties, what reason do you give on the HELOC application? My application asks specifically what home improvements I'm using the HELOC for and asks for writt...