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Hello BP community,I apologize if my post goes on and on. My name is Ashley. My hopes in joining BP is to get a network going of real estate investors who can help me as I begin my path in real estate investing (on t...
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Greetings BP family! My name is Robert Decraene (Rob) and I've been living in Oceanside, CA for the last 2 years; however, I've lived in southern California most of my life. I am also a family man with a 2 year old da...
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Just wanted to mention my latest deal (and will track updates), as it was another collaboration between several BP members. Don't want to mention names without permission, but the deal was found and put under contrac...
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I am 23 years old and just finished my professional baseball career. I played D1 baseball in college and assumed I was going to play for a while. My plans/goals changed so I retired and started my first small business...
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Just wanted to make a thread to see if anyone has any suggestions for majors involving Real Estate. I was thinking about majoring in Finance and Statistics, but was curious if anything else would relate better to Real...
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Hello all at BP! Currently I am nineteen years old unemployed and attending college for the second year. I do have money saved up but all that is going to rent to keep a roof above my head. I am so eager to invest, bu...
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I want to buy a duplex and live in one of the units. My ultimate goal is to have a portfolio of real estate and be wealthy, but I want to start with a duplex I can live in. If I had $20-$35K I could start this path of...
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I am so excited that our 4th Flip project finally was closed last Monday. It was the real big flip project for us this year and especially important one because I had joint venture with new investor who came to know f...
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Hafa Adai, Aloha, and Hello Everyone! My name is Jonita Ovalles-Pecjo (hyphenated with my biological father's name who died a few weeks before I was born and my step-dad that raised me until I was 15), but most kn...
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Has anyone on the forums had experience reducing the risk of a downturn in the home market, by buying a hedge on the stock/options market?
For example, you're building or refurbing a home that will be targete...