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I have done a few flips and long-term rentals in the past but I am trying to get started with short-term rentals and utilizing AirBnb and/or VRBO. I am having a hard time finding many resources that describe how to ge...
Hey everyone! I’m still in the education phase and working my way through @David Greene’s book Long Distance Real Estate Investing (great book by the way)! I think buy and hold over long distance is a strategy that c...
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Hi all, I'm an investor in the multi-family commercial space (based in Atlanta) and I'm looking for a tertiary, emerging market to play in. I've read Dave Lindahl's book, "Emerging Markets", where he breaks down the ...
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I'm just getting started so please excuse my novice question but how do you calculate the repairs on a flip? I was told an easy formula is the square footage of the house times $30. Is this a good tool to use?
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I have been BRRRR-ing properties in Milwaukee for over a decade and my team has always said I should make a video about how we do BRRRR's, but the topic does not really fit my YouTube channel (which is more for a resi...
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What advice would you offer for hiring contractors to help rehab my first distressed property? I’ve never done one before and am not sure where to start.Thanks for any advice.
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I'm building (as developer, hiring a GC) five townhomes in Houston. Until now I've been building duplexes in Dallas. I have a decent set of cost data from those builds, but all the material and labor cost inflation/vo...
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About 30 mins ago, the NY Times just uploaded an article that may affect interest rates.
Nationally, investors are gearing up for another rate hike by the Fed. Why so? The Fed is looking at the labor market to dete...
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Some very interesting data to share with you all on April rent collections across the US. One of the factors that particularly caught my attention was the impact of agriculture across several of the markets. In your e...
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National Association of Realtors Chief Economist Lawrence Yun recently wrote an article stating that we're in a "Bizarre Market" in which he stated "With a strong economy and the lowest unemployment rate since 2000, m...