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My name is Brandon Ortiz, and I’m a real estate agent here in the Bay Area. I’ve owned a home in Gilroy, CA, for 12 years, and it has built up a significant amount of equity. I’m now looking to invest that equity to c...
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In 2018, I purchased my first mobile home park. It had 12 occupied spaces and 3 vacant spaces. Over the years, I began to fall in love with creating safe communities and filling vacant spaces. Here in Utah, over the l...
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I want to get some feedback on an investment strategy I used in 2003-2005 that I call the "pre-construction flip". It works like this:Identify high appreciating markets (greater than 12% annual)Identify home builders...
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Hey gangNewbie question. I’ve read all these stories of everybody who started where they’ve had to go through obstacles personally, bad credit, 0 money, etc.I know you can get creative but first have to go through you...
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Now we are not quite ready to begin the above ground work, and it is getting nasty out. winter is not fun...post 13 - foundation coatOnce again the speed of our cribbers pays off in terms of staying just ahead of the...
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Hello BP Community! I'm still fairly new and have a deal that I am considering. It is with a local flipper who is quite experienced. The deal is to lend him $200K for the duration of the project with the expected d...
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I've recently felt very compelled to start contributing to BP more, so here is my follow up from my last post I put out 10 months ago titled "Quit my job at 21 years old to become a real estate investor". I would like...
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Ok, so this is going to be quite lengthy, I would just like to share with all why real estate investment is something that has come to my plate. I am a 37 year old male residing in Bedford, Pennsylvania. I feel like...
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Hello to all pro landlords,We use property management to manage our rental. Our current tenant (selected by our current property management and we didnt get a chance to choose) has not been paying rent for few months...
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I'm buying a house from an out if state seller. We talk often and have a good relationship. She calls me to tell me about how her sister got scammed.Long story short, she thought she was selling her house and getting ...