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Hello BP Community,I am an aspiring investor currently living in the high priced SF bay area of California. Currently I am still in an investigative stage of investing. Ive been focusing my search primarily in Sacr...
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Hello REI world, I'm at a space in my investing journey where I know I am probably not doing all the right things and if I want to continue, I need to really change my processes and get better with learning new strate...
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Hello!I'm quite new to BP and to real estate investing. I've not purchased my own first home, let alone an investment property. However, my goal is to learn all I can as I prepare to purchase my first property withi...
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A lot of people here call themselves real estate investors and most are but, can we be honest for a moment? If you haven't actually done a deal you are not yet a real estate investor. At this point you have aspir...
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I am seeking suggestions on how to prepare for retirement effectively. My aim is to maximize my monthly income to supplement my retirement fund (CalSTRS) after 25 years in education, within the next five years. Additi...
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Hello,I'm Brian, a 25 year old ex hockey goalie and an aspiring Real Estate Investor from a suburb of Saint Paul, MN. I graduated in 2017 with a bachelors in Material Science and Engineering from the University of Min...
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It's always difficult to objectively evaluate an investment property that you also want to use and enjoy yourself. I always try to avoid these emotional tightropes but when a wholesaler offered a contract on an A-Fram...
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Howdy BP members, I have a question that has honestly been haunting me the past few nights. Is it better to be great at one thing/aspect of investing, or to be a jack of all trades and master of none? Many people like...
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Many "Guru's" will say real estate will be dead by all the big/private firms buying into the real estate market , eventually flooding it where they hold all the inventory and control the market. Many topics are discu...