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Building a real estate portfolio can be a challenging endeavor. It takes time to find good deals, raise money and oversee your assets to ensure success. We all have different motivating factors that get us up in the m...
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Hello everyone! I am new to deeper pockets but I have been listening to the podcast for a while! So here is my situation, and if there is already a thread with an answer/suggestion to this please link it in the reply....
So a little background on me..I live in the northern Virginia area. I am a full time career firefighter. I only work (8) 24hr shifts a month leaving me time for other ventures. I recently obtained my Mortgage Loan Ori...
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To my very knowledgeable peers out there... My just got accepted on an empty lot and now I need to find some financing. I have checked out a private money lending company like Stallion Funding. They will fund the pr...
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Hi, I know that if I compared a $30,000 house renting for $600 a month to a $120,000 house renting for $1,600 a month, the cheaper house would have proportionately less property tax and vacancy factor, maybe also insu...
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Hi AllMy Central Boiler in my 8 unit building died March 2014I had a central boiler and converted all the units to individual forced air units in each apartment (they now control their own heat and pay their own gas b...
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My husband and I are just getting into REI and thinking we are going to have to start working with mostly 100k houses and below. Because of the smaller profit margins and the higher lenders fees we will have to pay st...
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Has anyone use a 2nd loan to cover the difference in Down payment ? I’m looking purchasing my first multi family unit home. I’m looking into a 4 unit multi family home in the contra costa area and planning to live in ...
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YouTuber Travis Spencer recently published this video:
Housing Crash definition
In this video, Travis starts off by defining a Housing Crash.Travis defines a housing crash as a 15 percent loss in value since its ...
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I've been house hunting in Houston for a while now, and I finally found what I think might be my house-hacking dream home. The home was built in 2007, never flooded, currently priced well under market value, and after...