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Hi BP community,This forum post needed to be retitled from my first version submitted an hour ago to make more sense.
When I started my RE investing journey back in the mid 2000's, I joined a local RE Investing group...
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By way of background, I've bought 8 SFRs in the last 18 months, 4 with conventional loans and the other 4 in cash. These properties are worth approx. $2.5mil, and I owe less then $700k on the mortgages, so net...
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Hi BP,I'm currently negotiating an off-market duplex deal that would be owner financed. I initially came up with an ARV market value of $222k based on recent comps. When I made my offer, the seller countered at an a...
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I am soooooo disappointed at BP. A site that I have recommended to many friends and family.I was so excited watching some of the podcasts for the last few days, and just realized wow, this could just be a whole big lo...
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I've been in this business for years and years, hundreds of units and untold thousands of tenants later, someone finally filed a lawsuit against us for their deposit not being returned.The story is the tenant was inhe...
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now of course this is major media and all the slants that come with it.. just like media saying that folks are not going to buy houses and they prefer to rent..now you have the opposite LOL see article for your read...
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Hello all - I wanted to post this because I hope it will help other beginner investors who are using conventional loans to buy rental properties.I ran my scenario by a real estate attorney and they agreed, so I want t...
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So I have a rental property here in North Carolina and I'm on a mission to acquire other buy and hold rentals. My issue is that 20% down on investment properties is a chunk of cash! Naturally, I would prefer to keep s...