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I've always had a glamorous & grandiose image of real estate investors...weird, right?! Yeah, I was one of those that thought the way to truly know you've arrived and become a big financial success is to let your...
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I swear this started out as just a sentence:
I was born to a father that would drive me to school teaching me about stocks, bonds, mutual funds, anything and everything that involved money. He didn’t drill it but I cr...
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Hello everyone at BP,Im a soccer player that has been interested in real estate investing for as long as i can remember. Ive been reading a lot of articles and forums during my travels. Im very excited with the pote...
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Here's something I don't understand, especially since I had the choice of choosing any place in the country to set up my business and chose Atlanta. So many people here on BP talk about investing out of state and in o...
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Hello BP,I am in uncharted waters as a newbie active investor. I own property, but have never jumped into the many different arenas of off market investing. I was recently presented with intel about a particular ho...
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550 miles from our primary, we networked and renovated a 3 BR/2 BA house in a mostly owner-occupied neighborhood. The kitchen was remodeled, new appliances, granite, knocked out part of LR wall for open-concept kitch...
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Hello Bigger Pockets community! My name is Sopheak Phuong and I'm from San Diego, CA. I've been blessed to live the majority of my life in San Diego. I'm a little biased but I think San Diego is America's finest city ...
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I am new investor and curious about the effectiveness of cold calling motivated sellers lists. I've been cold calling for the past two weeks mainly using pre-foreclosure lists. I find that I'm calling numbers that don...
Hi BP,I need your advice.I drove for dollars at about 15 houses per hour. I found about 600 properties. I sent postcards via gobigyellowletter.com to the 600 properties, yet I only received ONE call... and the one cal...
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Hi Folks,
I am interested to hear from anyone that is investing in college towns in general, but preferably, specifically Gainesville Florida. How easy in general is it to rent properties? Do you rent on a 9 month o...