I am looking for advise for long distance investing, especially for a newbie investor.
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Hi all I have a few questions and hope you can help me along the way. I own a 2 story house in South Philly and it’s fully gutted. I am putting a 3rd floor on and already have my zoning permits and waiting on construc...
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Please share your "Why?"
Here's mine: Personally, I believe in real estate investing because I don't believe in job security.
This has been my experience...I have worked since I was 15 years old, mostly for small b...
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I own 4 properties (3 duplexes / 1 fourplex in B grade neighborhoods) in cash. So far I've been relieved to own them in cash because the first 12-16 months I had to fix/replace/upgrade a lot of things that the previou...
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Every time we're preparing for a new administration, there's plenty of tax-related noise. The new President is going to do this, do that, yada yada yada.Unfortunately, a lot of financial and tax professionals join thi...
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I'm in my mid-50's and just getting started RE investing (haven't yet bought my first investment property). I'm feeling pressure to scale up cash flow quickly because of my age -- so I'm considering jumping right int...
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Hi All,Hope everyone is having a great weekend. I am an active real estate investor that has portfolios in a few different markets. I am starting to evaluate a new market and have been intrigued a bit with Birmingha...
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I'm hoping someone who's done a 1031 exchange before, or a CPA, can swoop in and drop some knowledge on me. I was over at my CPA's getting my taxes done and talking strategy for this year when the idea of a 1031 excha...