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Although this forum is primarily about real estate crowdfunding, there's been plenty of discussion about other kinds of crowdfunding sites (like YieldStreet and LexShares), as well as frequent interest in which ones o...
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Hey everyone, hope the day is going well. I’m a newbie to REI, as well as Bigger Pockets and wanted to introduce myself. I live in Roanoke, Virginia and currently work as a CPA. From my brief time looking through the ...
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I have an opportunity for a flip that would require significant financing. All the hard money lenders I've talked to are saying they require purchase plus rehab to be 70% of ARV. This opportunity doesn't quite fit tha...
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By my calculations we've assisted nearly two dozen out of state or area investors acquire, furnish and launch vacation rentals on the Oregon Coast the past two years. The typical investor profile is GenX or millennial...
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Hey BP need to help here on the topic of the brrr specifically the refinance part. I've called all the local banks , credit unions in my area and some! And they all tell me if they are not shut down due to the Corona ...
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The BiggerPockets newsletter always comes from "Allison | BiggerPockets". Who the hell is this Allison? Why is there a girl's name in the from line at all?
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So, I am trolling around for property #4. Being that this will be my fourth mortgage (and final mortgage before the guidelines change), I would like it to be an investment property because the guideline restrictions w...
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From Tinder Swindler to Inventing Anna - How do you know you are working with someone genuine? While today, it looks to me very simple to determine who I want to work with in Real Estate, I understand that for new inv...
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Hi,I’m Abhi from the Seattle area looking to invest in real estate, out of state. I invest in the US stock market but I'd like to move towards a new asset class as stock market albeit profitable, "if correctly picked"...
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As I read posts, comments, reviews, etc about crowdfunding, I am increasingly coming to a swift realization. And it is that most people have hijacked the term "crowdfunding" and use it almost synonymously to mean "inv...