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Hello everyone. I've been a BP member for a few months now, and I've previously been documenting my progress here:
http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/12/topics/67333-a-newbies-birddogging-journal
I decided to star...
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Whats Happening BP? So, first off, hi, I'm darwin, and I don't post or follow on this forum much, because it gets my blood pressure up. I've been a property investor now for about 4 years, and own some rentals, and ...
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According to Reuters, S&P has downgraded the US Credit Rating from AAA to AA+ and may likely downgrade again in the next year plus.
Thoughts? Insight?
I realize this may get political, but think this is an impo...
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I get the question about seller financing quite a bit from new investors (I want to buy a deal 25% below FMV in Milwaukee and with seller financing... ahm, okay, let's talk about that). Found this chart and to me this...
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I have been hammering away at trying to start a fix and flip real estate business of single homes in the Chicago market. I have tried pursuing several avenues to identify opportunity including knocking on homeowne...
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Over the past few months I've become aware of Fund & Grow as a financing option (I heard about it on the Clayton Morris podcast), and I was really intrigued by it. Their promise: You give us $3K up front, we'll g...
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So I'm currently in the process of purchasing my first deal! A fourplex here in San Antonio for $108K (Owner wants of the rental game). My intentions are to perform the Brrr strategy so I will also be borrowing an add...
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For those of you that buy and hold in college towns do you see this fall as...A. The same old housing market, all the students will be back. Sunshine and rainbows for everyoneB. Buying opportunity. This is the Thursda...
Hello everyone,
First I must thank J Scott for the business plan template that he's made available through his website. I spent about 8 hours yesterday on it, but thank God I finally have a great business plan and the...
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part of the appeal for going into real estate investing / landlording is to create passive income. to make enough in order to make it matter, i will need to possibly have 20 properties at some point. It seems to me ...