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The housing market in Texas has begun to increase substantially in the last few years with COVID-19 being a huge factor. The new remote work phenomenon has given people the ability to work anywhere they wish to resid...
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So we are currently stationed at Camp Pendleton, CA. We bought a house here in a Oceanside with the intent to rent it when we move. Everyome was saying how they wouldnt be able to rent their own house becaise how high...
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Hello Folks,
I look after property for a friend of mine who's absentee. I am not a professional property manager in the strict sense that I do not have limited power of attorney--I do not collect the rents and dispers...
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Many post with HOW someone got started in RE investing. But I was curious on WHY you chose real estate? Was it your mother or father or relative you admired? Was it just intellectual curiosity? Was it some infomercial...
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Greetings,I am a new investor, living near the Calgary area. We've been here only about a year and moved from Toronto previously. I currently work as an IT Consultant. However my goal is totally financial freedom -...
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So I’m having my Coffee and getting my financials ready to go meet my lender today to do my first deal. I check my credit score and notice my score dropped from 700 to 648. My mortgage company sold my mortgage on my p...
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So I have a few rentals already but like everyone else I am looking to expand my portfolio. I have talked to a few private and hard money lenders and came up with an idea i would like to try. I have a discover card wi...
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Hello, I am currently in escrow buying a house from Fannie Mae, I discovered that the house is in a high risk Fire and flood zones, I decided to back out of the deal but it was after the 10 days inspection contingency...
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HI! We are very new to this and are in process of making our first purchase through roofstock. We made our bid and it was accepted and before signing the PSA did more research turning up info that the property is ow...
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I know that RTO buy rate is somewhere around 5%. Does anyone know the buy rate on seller-financed deals - the ones where I, the seller, seller-finance my houses, as opposed to RTO? Really, to me it's semantics. I hold...