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Hello, my name is Jake Bryant. I hope you are doing well and stay healthy. I am building my business plan for REI. How excited I look forward to helping people in solving problems. One thing I stuck on an issue about ...
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I’ve posted a little bit but haven’t introduced myself yet. I’ve been reading and pouring through the forums for a month or two now. Just absorbing information and trying to wrap my head around everything but now it’s...
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Trying to sell my investment property in Southern CA. Once it was residential and now its rented. I talked with one agent, the commission is 5% which will be 20K out of my pocket which I wasnt ready for. House is i...
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Good Afternoon everyone! Going into the new year, have you already planned out what goals you want to achieve? Are you breaking up your goals into six month periods or are you looking at the year as a whole? What step...
Hello BP!
I’m Al, a rookie in the Toronto area. My proven strengths are operational efficiency and process integrations. While new in the world of real estate, I plan on emulating proven models of success (BRRR, hou...
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Hi everyone!! I'm super excited to be here and will definitely be reading through a ton of y'all's posts. A little about me: I live in San Antonio, Texas and I have been dabbling with growing my real estate knowledge ...
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Hey BP Community!!I want to start the Direct Mail strategy but i am stuck on how to start or where to even look. I live in NYC and as most know there are nothing but buildings all around so I wont be targeting any are...
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I do short sales as an agent, but have never done the "Double Close" with transaction funding to make a spread.
Has anybody here done this, are they doing it now, and is it working?
Thanks for any help and/or advice...
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Looking to use the short term rental loophole.
If I use the short term rental loophole for my STR, I material participate and do a cost seg study.
Can I take the value of the building in the first year as depreciati...
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What insight do you have on these options? Is it best to join a real estate team, or start out as a solo agent??