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Hi everyone. I am very excited to have found Bigger Pockets. My name is Daniel Mohnkern and I am from Titusville, PA. I have lived in Detroit, MI (former city ;-), Buffalo, NY, and the Chicago, IL area before settl...
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I have my first rental property in escrow. I am currently writing up preliminary rental applications and rental agreements. I plan to take them to a lawyer for review and revisions. Lawyers charge by the hour so I fig...
Hi Everyone,I am an MBA Professional changing careers in my early 30's and currently working on my Real Estate Sales License (Agent) here in Austin Texas. I'd like to start off working with higher end homes, preferabl...
Vice President Harris is expected to announce her plans at a rally on Friday. According to Forbes, it will focus on creating more affordable housing. Some of the finer points that I can see are $25,000 in down payment...
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Hello everyone,
I've been lurking on the forums for a while now and finally decided to put together a preliminary plan before diving into real estate investing. Apologies for the long post, but I wanted to provide en...
Those that have been doing this a while, how do you feel about the current environment?
There’s a flood of new people (including me) coming into the market and from talking to people in this for a while and reading, ...
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We have an applicant trying to complete an application for one of our rentals, but they do not have a social security number or a driver's license number- which are required fields for our background and credit check....
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The debate about a market crash has become almost as emotional as some other favorite American controversies. You don't see seasoned investors selling off their portfolios. Especially on social media no matter if it's...
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Fannie and Freddie are obviously doing a terrible job of assessing risk for borrowers with their mounds of prescribed paperwork. Apparently the Danes allow borrowers to access loans via the secondary market directly w...
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Has anyone else read this?
Housing: The one bailout America could really use
Definitely interesting. From the article:
"On top of the 2.5 million homes that have already fallen to foreclosure since the bubble burs...