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I would like to start my real estate investing journey through FundRise. However, filing taxes for this sounds super complicated and is the only thing stopping me from jumping in. What are the best ways for fi...
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I’m reading through “Investing with No/Low Money Down” and am struggling to understand private money interest rates, specifically the example on page 101.
Investor receives $130K, for a five-year term at 8%, interes...
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Hi BP Community!Trying to do my first seller financing deal and the owner is open to the idea, but has 1 concern that I didn't have an answer for off hand. If I buy the property tomorrow, and the owner carries the mor...
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So I got a contractor to do an insurence job in my home. He gave me a quote of 22k and asked for POA so that he could deal with the insurence company. I agreed. I then asked over and over again for a contract and a pr...
Hi,I am a non-resident alien living in the US. Since I have an address here it was not hard for me to open a bank account. Other Non-US citizens I know also want to invest in the US but opening a bank account is a cha...
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So from what I've read, you deduct the loss AND any/all cost of repairs made due to the casualty. Where do I put the cost of repairs deduction for my rentals at? On Schedule E as an Other Expense with a unique descr...
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Let's say I am looking at owner financing the sale of a property.Lets assume I bought the property for $100k with 20% down, and 5 yrs later sell for $200k, and owner finance 5yr balloon with 20% down @ 6% and 30 yr ...
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So I got a contractor to do an insurence job in my home. He gave me a quote of 22k and asked for POA so that he could deal with the insurence company. I agreed. I then asked over and over again for a contract and a pr...
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I was just doing some due dilligence on a proprety and I spoke to my Insurance Company (USAA), and had a mild heart attack when they told me how much it would be to insure. 1st I ran it online and it came to be ~$6k/...
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We recently had a guest from New Jersey who arrived on July 23rd and was booked until August 6th. He was a difficult guest from the start and very needy! After they were there for 12 days and also tried to have addi...