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Hi everyone! My husband and I are looking at buying our first investment property. We are trying to decide on trying to find a property in Southern CA/surrounding areas like Phoenix or Nevada or if we should look to i...
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I feel bad. One of my tenants is in her upper 60's, she works for a temp agency and has difficulty paying her bills. She is never late and hasn't missed a payment. She's been living in the building for six years. ...
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Hi BiggerPockets Community , I’ve just recently graduated and is working in the bay area. I really want to get started in real estates. My current conditions are that I am expected to go back to graduate school in a y...
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I realize that if I find an agent to help me find properties to invest in, the seller pays the commission on any sale. But is it hard to find an agent who will send me MLS listings every day knowing that as an invest...
I want to buy a house 2.5 hours from my duty station. I watched my mom travel 3 hours to and from work (6 hours round trip) when ahe worked in NY and she wanted us to go to a good school in NJ so this is normal to me....
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This came up in another thread and I thought it worth having its own discussion.
What do you think would encourage those people who come and read the site (available to non-members) to sign up and participate?
Ideas...
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I've been running the numbers and although real estate has been very attractive to me with leverage (I own 3 properties), running the numbers even with leverage real estate is not as attractive in the long run, becaus...
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As a bit of background, I live in Los Angeles, my investments consist of sfh in Ohio and one vacation rental here in California. Before I began investing, I got my CA real estate license (Its now expIred), signed on w...
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I'm wanting to enter a more restful season of life after sprinting hard that last few years. Syndications, in theory, sound like a very attractive option to me. I get how they work, but I wanted to ask you:1) Do avera...