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Economic Update (Monday, October 12, 2020)
Make no mistake: no one has enjoyed this Pandemic and...
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Hi everyone
I have an investment property in the Bay area (South San Francisco specifically) which I'm currently renting out to long-term tenants. It is a 3 bed/1 bath single family home and has a sizable backyard.
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Recently I received an ad showing that PTH (www.putianhouse.com) is selling pre fabricated houses and ships them from China. Does anyone have experience with this? I'm specifically interested in their light steel vill...
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This deal has evolved and I'll post updates here when relevant. I added a brief post about this on my profile, but here are the rest of the details:This is my second deal. My first was a vacant office building that I ...
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Hey BP, I have a question for anyone with knowledge of Columbus (or central Ohio, or maybe even the Midwest more generally): how do you like to estimate your rehab costs when analyzing a BRRRR or flip deal? The optio...
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We just got a buy-n-hold property (SFH) a few weeks back, and the rehab is done. We did notice there are mouse droppings throughout the house, both 1st and 2nd floors. The house was empty for over 6 months with no foo...
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"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there." - Charles F. KetteringMain Takeaway: Get out the shoehorn and bear grease!A local Seattle TV station last night ran a great overvie...
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Good morning everyone! My husband and I are so excited to begin our journey to financial freedom we can hardly contain ourselves but we are a little scared too. We both are in the medical field so this is definitely a...
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Again, without writing a novel explaining the details and reasoning behind this (should be obvious to the experts anyways) - I want to locate properties owned by distressed sellers.
Maybe they're not even selling eit...
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Stumbled upon this on Zillow. Is this black mold? Is this something any flipper would bother with? No inside inspections allowed. Price about 10K. It is in a large (not huge) city 3 minutes walk to major University. G...