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INTRO: Hi all. Great to be here. Heard a lot about how helpful this group is and decided to give it a try. So, I am an attorney making a midlife career change to a real estate investor at the ripe age at 40. I'm too o...
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As an investor, after you reached your 1st year owning your rental properties, did any of you keep your rent the same, or increase it? What's the smartest decision, why or why not?
Thanks for your time,
Rhea
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I am first rental investor. My goal is to buy-and-holdfor passive income with ROI of 10-12%. I do not wantto spend lot of time and effort managing rental properties.Towards this goal, I talked to few companies thatoff...
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Hi everyone,
I have been thinking about this for some time. The culture in real estate investing seems that everyone is out to help each other succeed.
But with wholesaling whenever someone asks me how I create my ...
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HUD Home Q&A
What is a HUD Home?
A HUD Home may be a single-family house, a townhome, condominium or other type of residence. The properties were deeded to HUD/FHA by mortgage companies who had foreclosed on FHA-...
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There have been several threads recently about trying to grow portfolios past 4, 10, or X properties. It seems everyone has unique problems based on their credit, income, liquidity, leverage ratios, type of income, e...
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Hello,I want to do a Facebook campaign to find buyers/seller leads for my real estate wholesaling business.I already tried Lead campaign without a luck.For those of you who did it successfuly, can you please share wha...
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okay so to begin. im 23 and i hate my job, for lack of a more descriptive word. Ive always had this passion for real estate and once i heard i can get into it without using too much of my own money, my heart lit up. w...
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Can someone please explain the cap rate and how to calculate it according to my offering of a property. I just purchased my first investment thanks to everyone on here and it went very very well. I think I got lucky...