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What is your favorite system for rent collection?
I am a HUGE proponent of Apartments.com and absolutely love that platform. It is completely free for both the tenant and the landlord, (unless your tenant chooses to ...
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This is my day job, and it's been both horrifying and interesting watching our healthy capital markets gradually deteriorate into a Michael Lewis financial disaster book. Thought it might be interesting to share war ...
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Hey everyone,
I'm Zach. I am currently a student at Hardin-Simmons University studying Finance & Economics. I grew up in a family of real estate/marketing people and now want to strike out on my own and s...
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I am considering purchasing a single family dwelling in Texas with an existing tenant who has not paid rent since February 2021. She is a huge hoarder with an overgrown unkept yard. There is no lease agreement to be f...
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I look poor on paper, so how do I purchase if I keep taking tax deduction? After a few year in real estate in California, making 120k a year, I took all my tax deductions from the real estate office, gas, food...
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I have listened to a lot of the podcast and also browsed on here to know that this might be a foolish question.How "unreasonable" is it to want property management when you first start out? Even with something like a ...
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I’m reading through “Investing with No/Low Money Down” and am struggling to understand private money interest rates, specifically the example on page 101.
Investor receives $130K, for a five-year term at 8%, interes...
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Okay, so I have a 5 bedroom house that I live in currently and rent out to friends as well. I'm doing a cash out refi and then buying another one to move into and bring them along with me.
I want to rent this one ou...
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Hello all,I know that NMLS provides information on rules and regulations for investing in individual states but is there any specific or particular verbiage that allows one to know if a license is required to purchase...
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When viewing property tax history on Zillow, I frequently see these huge jumps in property taxes from year to year, sometimes 100% increases (see attached example). Sometimes these are rehabbed houses, but many times ...