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Here's my story:If you read the entire thing, thank you in advance :)My father, in his late 50's and with no prior real estate experience, began investing in local multifamily properties in Binghamton, NY where he liv...
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I currently have two long-term rentals and a midterm rental. The midterm rental is being renovated at the moment. I am in search of an efficient system to track my rental properties regarding income and expenses to m...
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Quick question --
I want to pay a friend to help me with some labor fixing up a house. I'm going to pay her by the hour. I don't want to pay payroll taxes or anything like that - I just want to give her cash for hel...
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Hello I am going to sell my primary residence in Idaho and use the proceeds to buy a less expensive home in Oregon without a mortgage loan (all cash). I plan to live there with my wife. We have adult kids. Would it be...
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Hello, Im planning ahead and wondering how some of you have managed the rehab and your contract. Once you have the contractor/GC you are wanting to work with, how do you both set expectations of what will be done and ...
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I wanted to ask all of the landlords that own more than 10 rentals.
Do you manage them all yourself and if so how much time do you spend a week doing it? Do any of you have a property manager and if so how involved a...
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So... I am in negotiations on my first flip. It will be bathrooms, windows, some cosmetic, fixture updating... But nothing major structurally (fingers crossed)I know the tv shows showing those knobs laying tile whil...
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Ultimately I want to invest in apartments one day. My original plan was like most others: buy a bunch of SFH rentals until I can upgrade to an apartment. But, then I thought why not go straight into apartment invest...
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Hi All-
Generally, I stay away from purchasing condos at trustee auctions. I purchased one recently and it appears to have 25K worth of past due condo fee. There was a junior condo lien recorded against the property ...
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Hey guys,the background check that I ran on one applicant that I have returned with 2 housing claims in one year. As I confronted the applicant with these claims, she was surprised and claimed that it must be someone ...