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Hello everyone,
I have been actively researching the real estate market in the Bay Area, which I feel isn't talked about much in this sub. I know that due to its extremely high barrier of entry and overall VHCOL (Ver...
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I'm trying to figure out the difference between investors who do, and investors who just talk about investing.....
What finally motivated you to start investing in real estate? What I'm actually really interested in...
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PART 1: INVESTING IN REAL ESTATE, the Why, the Where, the What, the How, and the How Much:
In mid-2017 my wife and I decided to go back to what had been one of our passions in the mid-90's, the ownership and manageme...
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Ok for those of you who have read my posts I am a rookie land lord
and I put some pretty fancy doo dads in my rentals
they are c rentals neighborhoods that are a little sketchy There are bars on all the windows I t...
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Hello my fellow long-term buy & hold -ers. The more I listen and study (from various sources local & national), the more I hear the experts talking about an upcoming downturn in the market. Some folks have so...
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So in October I bought a low income rental in and ok neighborhood. My other rental is in an attractive neighborhood in Minneapolis and has been a breeze.
This low income rental has been quite a bit more work. It’s go...
Anyone else getting notified this morning of paused Ashcroft distributions due to refinancing issues?
We have been working on refinancing the asset in order to access the equity and create liquidity to earnestly res...
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Are Hedge funds buying in your city... should investors be following them and buying along side the Hedge funds with the hope of getting swept up in the anticipation of capital growth based on supply demand? Or are t...
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Hey there Bigger Pockets! Im a rookie investor, living in Souther California, looking to invest out of state. I want to start looking for deals but I'm getting hung up on where to look. For out of state investors, wh...
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So I owe two homes that I'm renting out, one tenant is paying just fine but the other tenant owes me two months of non-payment and are not paying since she's been unemployed. If she applies for unemployment, she'd be ...