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Hello BP Community,I recently started a new direct mail marketing campaign in my Chicago market and wanted to sort of chronicle how it turns out. I actually wanted to post this the first week, but I gave it a little t...
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First of all, I didn't start this thread to attack the professional tradesmen, but sometimes it gets to a point where even if you want to pay someone for a job, you end up DIYing the last 10% (or 25 or 50) of the work...
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Hey everyone! I am new to bigger pockets and relatively new to real estate investing in general. I have two rentals in the outskirts of Atlanta, GA and I am using a property management to manage these. After joining b...
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Wondering what kind of form/estimate sheet you all give your contractor?I've completed various renos, usually on the smaller side <40k and always used an excel spreadsheet with what is to be done, kind of broken do...
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Do you provide new shower curtains for your rentals During the make ready for a new tenant?
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Let me get this out of the way first, I have never considered purchasing a multifamily. I own one single family that I have been renting out for 4 years, and just closed on my second property 2 weeks ago. Multifamil...
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Curious if North New Jersey investors are seeing better opportunities in Buy and Holds or Fix and Flips. Looking around it seems there's not many opportunities for multis under 300K other than Newark, East Orange, su...
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Hi BPer's of Fresno!I'm starting out in my journey in REI and am looking at several markets. I'm currently residing in San Jose, CA. As you guys know the state of affairs, I'd rather not invest in that area since it d...
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1.0 Introduction
Here is my small experience with a Harris County Tax Sale. Harris County is the county containing Houston, Texas. Since I could not find much about the actual process I figured others mig...
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Hi Everyone, We bought 3 hotels & motels this year and are quickly ramping up to buy more hotels in this upcoming recession. I started in real estate with househacking (renting rooms in my house out as STR/MTR), t...