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I am sitting here and mentally preparing for next month and entering all the rent checks and direct deposits into my poorly designed Excel spreadsheet. I wanted to ask as there must be a better way to keep track of re...
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I am fairly new to the short term rental side of real estate, I’ve mainly been a long term buy and hold investor.In the past couple years we have done a few small scale short term rentals out of our principle residen...
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We have a unit that currently has baseboard heat (electric) The tenants we had in there years ago never complained about the cost of heat, but the tenants we have had for the past 2 years say that their bill goes up $...
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With a new year among us comes new opportunity for investment, particularly investment in commercial real estate. In this post, I will discuss 4 large US markets which I believe to be ripe for commercial real estate i...
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What's your worst ESA / service animal story? Hopefully that's well behind you...I've long said that it will take big money lobbyists (likely from the air travel industry) to push into motion some type of regulation o...
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Here is a strategy I've been working on. I have a business where I design products and have them mass produced in China. I ordered over $200k in wholesale orders last year, so I am very familiar with the whole China p...
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I am perpetually game planning future moves and this exercise inevitably requires taking a position on how the near future will unfold and the best way to benefit. I am interested in hearing what BP users think is abo...
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Just a quick disclaimer. This is a really long post. Also I am also now employed by a self storage operator so my opinion is probably is not objective.I was a professional sale person who "retired" on 3/31/2018 to l...
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Hi everyone,First off I hope I have this in the proper category because quite frankly, modular construction falls under many categories including real estate technology, real estate development, commercial real estate...