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Hi everyone! Quick Question.
What type of benefit would I get from becoming an agent before an investor? I want to be an investor and truly don’t want to become an agent, but I do know that I’d have an advantage. Woul...
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Hi everybody,I am a new investor planning to buy my first home (duplex) in Philadelphia to househack it. It would be my home base, but I plan to travel 6-9 months out of the year, meaning my unit would be collecting d...
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Hello fellow BP'ers,I have an opportunity to speak with a homeowner in my neighborhood, who is likely to sell her property very soon. The good thing is that the property isn't listed, and from what I know this person ...
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Hi all,I have purchased my first up and down duplex and my first house a month ago now. So far so good my tenants upstairs are great.Anyhow I want to update my bathroom as it is very outdated it has pink tiles all ar...
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HI,I live in Tampa Bay area. Our area is fairly hot and the prices are still crazy. However, I have a business and I'm putting all of my finances into the business because we are expanding a lot and have nothing left ...
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I'm working on listing a commercial property for sale. One of the brokers I'm talking to prepared a doc showing a comparison between a comparable sales approach, and an income (cap rate) approach, to estimate value pe...
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Hey everyone! First time posting here, but I've been researching STR for a while. Planning to invest sometime in the near future. Wanted to get some feedback on whether it's wiser as a rental property newbie to inv...
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I found a deal that I am a bit reluctant to take, but have reasons particular to me that make it attractive.
With a modest estimate it should yield an ROI of just over 20%, but in order to get it I would have to use...
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In July, my business partner and I put a single family home in a B or B+ rural neighborhood under contract for $140K. The owner was a widowed elderly lady who was living in a nursing home and her children were left w...
Hi BP,I need some direction. For a few years now I have been researching topics related to REI strategies and have decided it is time to put things into motion. I worked as a RE rental agent in NYC for almost three ye...