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I am brand new to the prospect of real estate investing. Still doing tons of research with podcasts and reading books. My question is this... I’m in the Pittsburgh market, which has become pretty competitive for the C...
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Mike Simmons is an important part of our 7 Figure Flipping team. He also has been a part of a successful business partnership for many years now. However, it wasn’t his first or even his second or third partnership....
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I am a novice investor in the Philadelphia market. I bought my primary residence at a great price in Dec 2015. It’s appreciated about $120-140k. I owe $256k, the property is wo...
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Those here who are familiar with more conventional investing may know about life-cycle funds. For those who are not, a life-cycle fund is a fund that is chartered in such a way that it invests according to the intere...
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I am curious about BP member thoughts on an Airbnb-purpose condo project underway in Austin. Pros and cons of looking at this as an investment? Thanks!New article here and posted below also. Press release here. "AUSTI...
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Hi all! I am curious what are some things you wish you knew as a first time investor in real estate, and how did you start? I am a CPA with 7 years of experience in which I specialized in real estate partnership taxa...
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Hey Alaska rental owners, I'm just curious how you are doing with on time rent payments? Are people paying on time? Late? How are vacancies doing? Any modifications to leases?I dumped my rental in ER middle of last ye...
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Hi BP family, I'm planning to buy my first investment property with my sister in the Bay Area. I'm planning to buy in Fremont, Hayward, Union City but with my budget it seems that I can only buy condo or townhouse (if...