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When I first started purchasing houses I had a Realtor find me a lot of deals. Once the houses were renovated I had her put the houses up for Lease on MLS. She would have the prospective tenants run a background check...
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I am encouraged to research further into the Baltimore buy and hold rental market due to the rent to value numbers. My intention is to buy and hold a stack of SFH's in a good cash flow area. It appears from my initial...
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Dear BP,I'm attending my first REIA event today and it seems like a scam. I'm a bit skeptical when they are throwing stories of $$$ left and right. Any thoughts?
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Hey everyone, Wanted to hear the communities response to this;Brand new r/e investor, going to do a fix and flip. Does anybody have any interesting tax strategies in respect to this whole process? (buying, selling and...
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Like everyone right now, I am spending a lot of time at home thinking about the short, mid and long-term impacts of our "new normal". A question I keep thinking about is what will be the new trends that will emerge as...
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Good afternoon BP! So I have bad news, if you read the title to this post, my mortgage loan for declined. I've been working with Movement Mortgage, and they send all my documents over to underwriters to get a pre-appr...
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I live in West Texas and I'm looking to purchase my first cash flowing multifamily property in Midland/Ector county within the next few months. I have identified and I'm working on putting a contract on an 80 unit pro...
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I recently purchased a commercial real estate property and on the verge of closing. I am interested in investing in more properties so for the past three months, I have been constant on the look out and looking for pr...
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*I would encourage you to read the links below to be educated prior to reading/posting! Everyone is entitled to an opinion... but only the informed should share it!*
Link to the Legislation, PDF available to download...
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As an investor in real estate, when buying property, is it better to have a real estate agent or better to get your own real estate license and becoming your own real estate agent?what are the pros and cons?