I'm evaluating a a single family rental home that is used as student housing for the local college. From the numbers, the property seems attractive, but I have some reservations about the place. The property itself i...
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Hello! My name is Jamie Rost and I am brand new to real estate investing. My day job is currently an executive in IT at a local college but like many other stories, my income being tied directly to the hours I worked ...
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It’s terrible. I️ just finished watching a commercial where people are hyped off of a free seminar and talking about retiring in one year after wholesaling and doing deal after deal like its cake. First time seeing a ...
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The first step in buying real estate is evaluating the market. When evaluating a market for multifamily investments, one particularly important factor to analyze is employment trends. A strong market must have a track...
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I just mentioned in another thread that boredum was probably the reason for my varied experience. Thinking back, when I got out of the military I was an agent for Metropolitian Insurance. I had a sales manager who tol...
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I'm looking at several properties in Poughkeepsie NY to purchase and use as student rentals. I've been analyzing the town for a while and would be interested in hearing from other investors in the area who are renting...
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Has anyone ever done it? How does someone new to doing this with zero experience making videos present their deals to potential buyers on You Tube? There are some videos out there where investors just did a walk throu...
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So I was thinking about investing a little time into some classes at the local college geared towards brokers and agents. Specifically I was interested in the property management and finacing classes as these could po...
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Investment Info:
Large multi-family (5+ units) buy & hold investment in Flint.
Purchase price: $55,000
Cash invested: $5,000
As my first experience in purchasing rental properties, getting this g...
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I own a real estate investment company in Kansas City and we do our own management. We have about 170 units 100 of which are houses spread across the metro. We have grown to the point where we need more hands on maint...