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Did anyone else watch yesterday's episode of Shark Tank?A new Real Estate Crowdfunding company called Tycoon was on. The owner of the company as well as the entire crowdfunding industry was bashed pretty hard by the S...
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I am interested in buying a 4 unit Multi Family Property in Los Angeles. I would be purchasing this property with a partner. I own no other units and would be occupying the property. I would like to take possession of...
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I went to a networking event Thursday for the first time in a long time and was sitting down when some idiot walked around the entire room and put his business card in front of everyone before even telling us who he w...
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Hey guys...so far it's kind of been crickets on offers I've submitted for fix and flips. I know that a lot of people submit as many as 20 or 30 offers before they will get one accepted. REO's around here are ridiculou...
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I recently got denied a refinance loan on my property due to losing my job whilst this was in the process. I have no desire to go back into the work force I wanted to know what could be my other options of obtaining l...
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Hi Everyone,I have been on this forum for quite a while and got all the motivation to start real estate investing from here. I have finally saved around 50k to start investing in real estate. I live in California but ...
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There are a lot of investors who do seller financing and I would like to sell some of the properties I acquire under my own financing terms as well. My question is: how do you do that and comply with Dodd Frank, which...
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Hey folks,I started a Whole Life Insurance policy almost three years ago for the purpose of investing in real estate. Lately, I have been thinking on cancelling my policy and put that money towards maximizing my 401k ...
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I'm a newbie, and for my first investment I'm gearing towards an out of State STR, where I can also use as a vacation home and depending where I'm at in my life, retire there. Is an STR a bad idea as a first investmen...
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Hi BP community,My business partner and I are new real estate investors located in Orange County, California, and we are very excited to introduce ourselves to the BP community.Let me start with introductions. My name...