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Can you describe some of the mistakes you made at the beginning of your real estate investing career?
If you could go back and do it all over again...... Where would you start? What would you do differently? What advice do you wish you heard early on? What are the biggest mistakes you would try to avoid? What is your ...
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Investment Info:
Single-family residence wholesale investment.
Purchase price: $81,000
Cash invested: $100
Sale price: $90,000
This is a partial brick 3 Bed 1 Bath home in the Colonial Acres Neig...
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Hey everyone! I read a bigger pockets thread from a few years ago that says the property analyzing tool “Flipster” isn’t worth the money at all… what do you think?Also if you don’t think it’s worth the money how do yo...
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What do you consider to be some of the worst, time wasting or most destructive habits of new Real Estate Investors?
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So I started my direct mail marketing campaign the wrong way. Starting out i thought i would need a gimmick to get my phone ringing for potential deals. So i did something pretty risky without knowing the outcome.. An...
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Recently I've seen a massive increase of homeowners rolling up their sleeves and taking on DIY projects either on their primary homes or on their rental properties. Maybe money is tight, maybe it is the summer and peo...
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Plan on acquiring my first property next year with my business partner, we will focus on value added in a B/C class with great employment and etc as other factors. First property will be max 2-4 but I would like to kn...
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Good morning, everyone!
My husband and I are trying to buy our first buy and hold property and are both working full time, so are going to be interviewing property managers to help us. What questions should we be as...
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Hi BP community-
I'm starting out, marketing to a list of 600 absentee owners with 50% equity in properties, and wanted to try something a bit different than the traditional yellow letter/postcard approach.
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