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Hi all,My fiancé and I currently live (rent) in the North End neighborhood of Boston, and while we love the location and convenience, we're both sick of forking over 1/3 of our income each month in rent. I've been doi...
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Hello BP members!I am new to REI and joined BP several months ago. We live and Turlock, CA and are looking for buy and hold multi family opportunities for cash flow. Unfortunately our area will not support cash flowin...
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Hi,After contacting a few lenders I’ve realized that the down payment money can’t be a gift. Does anyone have an idea how rigid is this rule and if there is a way to work around it. I did receive funds from my parents...
So I have a tenant moving out at the end of the month and is not open to allowing me to show the house to pre-screened potential tenants in a supervised fashion with a totally flexible schedule. I explained to her th...
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I have just about finished my real estate investing plan. Last i checked we all could use some help in development. So whats a good way to really proof read (have help proofing) this plan of mine to find out "holes" o...
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I am a total newbie in this forum so sorry if i'm writing about a subject that sounds like a broken record but i need some advice (and comfort!). My husband has been landlording for about 2 years and he recently asked...
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For my savvy Real Estate investors out there who have attended the school of hard knocks. What Real Estate Cliches have you found to be true, useful, or completely false. Here are my top 3 True Cliches:1. Risk comes ...
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Have any ideas of what I can provide residents of a large class C apt community? I'd like to give them something nice and unexpected. Some parameters I'd like to stay within: - no rent concessions- ideally very inexpe...
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I’m interested in hearing everyone’s best piece of real estate advice they ever received.
I’ll start: “Speak softly, and carry a big portfolio!”
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Lately I have started to list my properties by myself. When saying by myself I mean either a flat fee service or using a realtor that his name is on the listing but my number and email are there and all communications...