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I’m a big fan of cash reserves. The covid outbreak has only emphasized this. The problem with cash is that if you have any form of debt it literally costs you money to hold cash. To get around this I have a big line o...
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Hello investor community,
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I wanted to share this story in the hopes it can inspire someone to just get started. Here is a story that I couldnt make up if I wanted. 14 months ago I had to figure out w...
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Hi,
A week ago one of the houses I own had a plumbing issue at 1:00 am. We called the 24*7 plumbing and snaked the line immediately and later the next morning took care of changing the entire plumbing line up...
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Hello Bigger Pockets Community. Thank you in advance for your insight and discussion.
We are beginning Landlords and living in one of our investment properties (duplex). Our upstairs tenants decided to buy and bri...
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I've been researching a career change to FT RE agent. I'm great at sales (I've started a company - was profitable, in big box retailers and sold it off), I'm now self-employed (yuck - but I do have some control), and ...
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There's a specific off-market duplex in my area that I'd like to buy. I've been hitting the owners with direct mail for a few months now. I was considering sending them a few offers without even seeing the inside of t...
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Hi all,I wanted to put a question out there, since I know some of you have more experience than I do on this.My property came with a cell phone tower. That was really convenient, because of the reliable source of inco...
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This was in the UK....where they call it Letting & he does fill his ramshackle units with the perfect tenant.He's being investigated so this should end well!!!
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Hi, All. We are currently in an Earnest Money dispute. We were set to close on a vacation/investment property and at the 12th hour (literally 2 weeks prior to us thinking we were to close), our lender said the prope...
So I started my direct mail campaign almost a month ago. The first batch of postcards went out on Feb. 1st.I got 3 calls on the first 1100 post cards that went to out of state absentee owners in areas surrounding Denv...