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Door count is the worst (commonly discussed) metric in the real estate investing community. Why does everyone use it? Can we all decide to collectively kill it? Or are there some of you out there that stand by door co...
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Hello, My name is Lawrence and I am trying to get off market deals, I have been skip tracking my absent the owner list and Cold calling the list with my hired VA. However, I have not been able to land any deals. My me...
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Do I need to use a real estate agent besides the listing agent for inquiring deals? I feel like I am an annoyance and that it’s just a waste of time calling a real estate agent to have them call on a deal when I can j...
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Toledo's Lucas County Metropolitan Housing Authority...LMHA which administers the Section 8 program seems to have had a difficult 2016 and 2017 doesn't seem much better.I've been renting to Section 8 for seven years n...
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Hi there! I manage my books currently, but since we bought a new property and I have a full time job, it seems like a lot to keep up with the books. Do you recommend a CPA to handle all things on the books, or should ...
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I'm a member of Bigger Pockets and tend to be more active in Las Vegas posts as that is where I've been personally investing for 11 years and I'm also a property manager there. I've recently gotten the urge t...
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I'm considering getting out of the Mid-Term Rental Game.I purchased 30 apartments (two 10 units, a 6-unit, and a 4-unit) for the purpose of running them as Mid-Term rentals.Currently, half of them are being run as MTR...
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Economic Update
(Monday, March 29, 2021)
This pandemic has really exposed the fault lines in our workforce demographics. It has exposed the divide between those who can work from home and those who can’t (deemed e...
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My girlfriend and I are selling our current home in Colorado. We are relocating to Jacksonville, Fl this spring. We intend to buy one single family home to live in for the first year, that will transition into becomin...
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Would it be ok for me to use sites like Redfin,trulia, realtor.com to do comps on a property I’m looking into purchasing?