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I BP Community! My weekly brief, hopefully insightful, dive into real estate and/or financial markets is below!
Today we’re talkin:
- Jobs / Inflation Report- New Housing Market Outlook 2024- Housing Affordability- ...
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Hello all and welcome to the new year! It's January 10th, 2024 and here is a brief, hopefully insightful, dive into real estate and financial markets.
Today We’re Talkin:
- The Weekly 3 - News and Data to Keep you ...
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The claim is that Short Sale purchases can create "instant equity" by negotiating a purchase with a financial entity for lower than market value because of the distress/situation, then immediately resell it for FMV.
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I was just looking at the yield on the 10 year t bill and saw it was about about a half a percentage point from this point last week. I thought Id check Zillows mortgage rate tracker to confirm...and sure enough mortg...
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I recently bought my house using the full 203k loan since the house had some possible structural repairs that needed to be done on the raised foundation. The repairs needed to be completed were not astronomical compar...
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This is a question I get all the time when dealing with people entering the mobile home market... and there are a whole bunch of answers. Lets start with one thing in mind, the less you pay- the quicker you recover yo...
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Does anyone have an alternative way of calculating the value of a BRRRR in terms of future income - present value? Annuity, perpetuity, zero-coupon bond with a speculated maturity value? What I'm trying to solve is fi...
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I am a financial planner. Took all the CFP courses and passed the test. Very (VERY) little of the course material focused on real estate as an investment. Stocks, bonds, and insurance products were covered in detail (...
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What was passed
Baltimore city council just passed a bill requiring owners of over 10 units to offer alternatives to security deposits. Alternatives include paying in installments and paying for insurance.
What now...
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Hello,
So I’m still in my planning stages to begin flipping, I just have a few questions that I’m hoping have simple answers. I want to do everything the right way and I also want to protect myself. I’m planning on c...