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So I am going to be doing a major renovation on a unit. Current rent is $1150 but I believe I can get $1500/1600 if I ball out on the renovation. My question is what type of hard surface countertop would you use? Gran...
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Bee Hive,I would love to hear some thoughts/suggestions on where my wife and I should do our next vacation rental. We have owned long term rentals for quite some time and recently bought a vacation rental in Fort La...
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http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/3173f19e-5fbc-11e4-8c27-00144feabdc0.htmlA perennial optimist when it comes to technology, he argues that all that will change. Rapid improvements in artificial intelligence, for instanc...
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Quick background: I have decided to start building a portfolio of rental properties (multi family) mostly in the Boston area for now. After acquiring a couple of 6 and 7 family - 600K properties, I realized it is quit...
Hello everyone.
I'm a newbie on this forum and very interested in learning more.
I have 2 questions:
- Are you a full time real estate investor?
- If so, how do you get financing?
I am...
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Hi BP,
I'm Tracy and I fell into real estate development a few years ago when I couldn't find a house I wanted to buy.
I did, however find an empty half acre lot in wine country, in a great neighborhood. It was zon...
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Looking to open a discussion on South Bend Multi Family deals. Any thoughts on current inventory? Anyone have experience as a current landlord? Creative financing for such deals?
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Hi everyone. I am fairly new to the forum and have been doing a lot of reading to prepare myself for my first deal. I met with a mortgage originator at one of the large bank in Minnesota today who told me that a trans...
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Hello, I am wondering if a seller of an existing property, say a 4 plex, can do a 1031 into a 'new' property with the same person or entity that he sold the 'old' property to? Think of it this way, I buy 4plex from 'F...
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Hi Everyone! Happy Friday (that has different meanings to different people!! :) ) Thought I would post a thought provoking post to solicit a lot of response ... let me know what you think!For those of you who have re...