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Hello Biggerpockets!
My name is Jim and I live in the Central Florida/Orlando area. I have been learning about real estate investing for the past 1-2 years and am close to making my first real estate deal.
I am 25 ...
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Mot asking for a loan or specific lender, but I'm really asking how this type of situation is handled.All the traditional banks I've talked to won't lend to you if you have 10+ mortgages.All the hard money lenders off...
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What do you think about MBA or any college degree?
Is it necessary to start investing? It should I just start experimenting with real estate investing?
The only problem with starting without college degree is getting...
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Hello-Just wanted to take a survey of how best to collect rent.I am trying to streamline the process.Do most of the folks on BP recommend collecting rent the traditional way(in-person & mail)or do folks find it ea...
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Hey BP family,So I passed both the national and state exam yesterday on the first try. I doubt anybody remembers but a month or two back I posted in this forum asking if I should drop the online schooling and go to a ...
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So I just accepted someone for a unit in my duplex and are having them provide certified funds for the security deposit and 1st month rent. I will then use Cozy for their regular rent payments. I then got to thinking ...
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I've just been doing some reading online and I came across these few sentences:
"The MLS concept is very familiar to real estate buyers in every part of the U.S., except New York City. An MLS is still a prett...
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OK self storage peeps. What percentage of rents did you collect in April? Do you collect quarterly or monthly? I'm assuming they are credit card auto-debits, please correct me if they are not.Did you have any unusual ...
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Hello,We have been looking for a program(s) to help out with both the accounting side of our rental property business and also the 'management side of things'. If we could find this all in one program that is easy to ...
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Hello BP!! I am starting out my BRRR efforts and as I calculate my MAO I also want to account for the ReFi loan costs (using 4.5%). So, with Excel trying to give me "circular reference" warnings I have needed to do t...