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Greetings BP community,My name is Hendra Lim. I'm a software engineer from San Jose, CA. I became interested in investing in real estate in early 2018. My research quickly turned me to BiggerPockets. I joined BP i...
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Sharing our success after a highly successful first year from 0 to 26 units closed in under 10 months.
In early 2018 my brother @Ashton Levarek and I began educating on investing in real estate through podcasts, web...
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Hello Everyone!I am closing on my first rental property (SFR) next week and I plan on self-managing. It is also worth mentioning that I plan to acquire five additional SFR's by year end and to continue to scale up fr...
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Hi, everyone! What are your thoughts on Cozy or TurboTenant?. I will own five units from two properties by mid-August. I want to manage them online as much as possible. Both of these free management tools look promisi...
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Hey everyone! Excited to join and learn from this community. We are prospective real-estate investors looking to purchase our first rental property this year! We live in Los Angeles, CA and are looking heavily at inve...
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Hello BiggerPocket Community,Long story short on the clock with a low 7 figures in a 1031 - what would you do? Currently have small portfolio of rentals that cash flow. Current market is very low inventory if nothin...
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Hi guys,
I would like to put my first offer on a deal I found in Charles Village, Baltimore, MD and I would like to get your thoughts about it.
It's a SF located 2 blocks from John Hopkins University an...
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Hello BPs,I thought I should update everyone on my journey. I finally purchased my first investment property in Philadelphia. The costs wasn’t too bad during the process and it went pretty good for my second go around...
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Does anyone have any experience converting a two family to a three, or doing major renovations of a two / three family?
It is somewhat town specific but I am having trouble interpreting fire code for automatic sprin...
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Just curious as to if anyone has ever quit their job to go into real estate investing full time, and doing so too soon.I work 60+ hours week right now and make good money. I'm very knowledgable (at least I think) on t...