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What Does it Take to Achieve the Dream of Full Time Real Estate Investor?
After 45 + years as a real estate investor, broker, lender, fund manager and syndicator, I’ve become aware that the “dream” of many investors ...
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Hello BiggerPockets,
So I have saved my first 10k and I have been looking for a good market to invest in rentals (I currently live in Southern California), So far from my online research the Midwest area seems like t...
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I am in negotiations to purchase a triplex in an A neighborhood.It is unique in that everything around it are SFRs. There is literally no similar property nearby to comp.I didn't use the SFR properties for comp.I did...
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I am looking to get a LOC against my portfolio of 12 rental properties that are owned free and clear. I am struggling to find any lenders that will do a line not a term loan. Anyone out there have any contacts they ...
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I am just wondering how many more weeks or months it will be until newbies with that deer-in-the-headlights look start wandering in: hey, have any of you heard about Arbitrage, where you don't have to buy the prope...
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I'm selling a rental property for $550k and holding $130k in seller financing for 1 year with a balloon payment next year. I bought the property for $80k. My questions are these:
1. Would I need to buy replacement ...
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Hello everyone! New to REI and have been absorbing hundreds of hours of information for months now. Im currently building capital and analyzing deals on the MLS everyday just to get the practice and be ready to go.I p...
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Hello All,I'm getting back into REST investing after over 10 years off and learning a lot from the REST bubble of late last decade. I'm looking to become a long term REST investor and would like to buy and hold, and ...
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Hi everyone! I'm Lisa, a teacher, and have been in the background reading and learning as much as I can. This site is absolutely the Holy Grail for me! Anyway, I just realized that I commented on a post without ever...
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Hi everyone!New to the bigger pockets community by way of the podcast.Right now I'm looking for a buy-and-hold investment property in the West, Central, or the Northeast Los Angeles area and was wondering if anybody h...