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TWIN CITIES METRO:The Best of Times May Be NowLocal industry observers agree: the Twin Cities rental market is humming along smoothly with all the usual health indicators still flashing go. High rental and investor d...
Good morning All—I’ve been wanting to get into real estate for a couple of years now and this year is the year I start.Wanting to get into duplexes (house hacking) and build the real estate portfolio from there.What w...
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First and foremost, I am not an attorney but highly recommend that if you do own real estate (which if you are reading this you likely do) that you also speak to an estate planning attorney. Allow me to put emphasis o...
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What is the average time it takes for your property manager to get a unit fixed up and rented out? I know there will be a little variation based on size and condition, but I wanted to see if there was some expected in...
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Asset Protection & Piercing the Corporate VeilWe've all heard of Asset Protection and the suggestion is typically to create an LLC and hold title in that legal entity. In and of itself, this can be a major hurdle ...
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If a tenant breaks a lease/wants to leave early, do I keep the deposit or does the property management company?How about late rent fees? Pet fees/rents? Security Deposits if damage is done to the property?I’m just try...
Get a Leash on the Three P’s of Pets:Pet Deposits, Pet Fees, and Pet Rent Whitney Hahn | Paragon Real Estate Advisors | Many landlords question whether or not they should allow renters to have pets in their apartme...
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Do a lot of closed short sales result in the sellers still being on the hook for all or a portion of the shortfall? For example, would a home selling for $200k with a loan amount of $370k likely have something like th...
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when you see these flippers making profits on deals and wholesalers. What are some the ways these investors find these deals with good equity . I know about direct mail to different target groups of property owners bu...
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I'm an experienced engineer, RE agent and investor. I've been sending direct mail - postcards, yellow letters - and have yet to get a property under an off-market contract after 10+ owner / seller meetings. (Sure, I'm...