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Hello,
I'm doing some research into starting a hard money lending business in California. The loans would be first trust deeds on non-owner occupied residential property (lending to RE investors) and the business en...
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If your 401k provides a low rate of return and you know you can invest your money at a higher rate of return than the fees associated with withdrawing your money plus the opportunity cost of leaving your money in the ...
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With apologies to J Scott - typically, my team and I refer to our houses by the street number. In this case, we have two houses side-by-side, and referring to them by the street number is confusing everyone... so we'r...
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Hi Everyone!I am originally from Erie, PA. For those of you who are not familiar with the area, the winters are pretty harsh. Extremely cold weather and LOTS of snow. I am considering what to do for my first investmen...
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Hello,
I was wondering if any of the seasoned real estate investors here have a RE license. Are there more advantages to having one? Increased liability? I'm trying to figure out what would be the best way for me to ...
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I would like to deploy some money into Multi family 10 to 50 units in the next couple of years. From what I read it seems to fall into 2 categories. 1. Either you have a lot of money and buy one on your own. Or2. ...
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This question is for experienced investors... Am I investing correctly? Or should I change strategies? I am buying the worst houses in good areas and fixing them up and renting them out. The below numbers I am not i...
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Good Morning BP community,My name is Mike and this marks my first post on the forums after being an active podcast listener and forum reader. Here is some background info and then I'll get straight to the point:I am 2...
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Hi all,
This is my first post on BP - I looked around for similar questions/answers and couldn't find a good match so I figured I'd go ahead and post; hopefully this is the correct forum for my question. First, a li...
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It is my belief that in the next few years a nationwide multipurpose real estate website will evolve to become a major player in real estate sales. At first augmenting, but eventually displacing local Multiple List...