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My Year 2015 in review HEREBackground: busy software engineer in SF bay area. Strategy 2016: Cautiously buy out of state properties, accumulate cashflow for my balance sheet (to qualify bigger loans).Started 2016:
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How do you buy two rentals in one year? I was going to buy a owner occupied duplex with 3.5% down then buy an investment property using 25% down but my DTI ratio would not qualify for both mortgages in the same year u...
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If you'd like to follow along and watch as my partner @David Ross and I flip a Brewerytown row home, the link to our blog is below. I'll also post pictures and updates in this thread but I won't replicate what David h...
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Just read an article from the MIT technology review and read up on what we already know. Life is not going back to normal tomorrow, next month, or maybe ever.
https://www.technologyreview.c...
until we get a lon...
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What's up everyone,I'm a recent home buyer/investor located in Jersey City, NJ. A few months ago, I closed on a condo in the Heights neighborhood (after going through a brutal sellers market), and am currently in the ...
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Well, I guess we (collectively) are going to see how smart Robert Kiyosaki is, at least when it comes to predictions. On a news program he makes the bold prediction that real estate & the stock market are going to...
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Heres my situation. I am from Bloomington Indiana. It is the home of Indiana University, and has a very diverse range of family incomes. The population is about 70,000. Being a college town there are a ton of rent...
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hi BP
just another curiosity post.
I have NEVER successfully flipped a property.
hoping to flip my first this year...although I am thinking it may turn into a buy/hold
my first flip, turned into rental and then sol...
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Hello everyone
I am here to share my personal situation and ask for some advice from more experienced people.
I have graduated from high school in 2020 and didn't go to college. In a year I have tried different thin...
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San Jose Investors. What do you folks think? I hear some say SJ is still growing with potential new IT space attractive to some companies. Like the new Google facility at Diridon. I see others say SJ may be headed ...