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Hello everyone. I am looking for some legal advise to determine my business structure in the US. I am French, l live abroad and would like to start investing in the US (MI). I have been looking at different structures...
I'm purchasing a duplex on a 30 year traditional mortgage. I'm planning to transfer to a LLC after the purchase, understanding the "due on sale" clause is unlikely to be enforced. Got me thinking, even if I had to mai...
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Hello BP,My husband and I purchased our first investment his past June which was a 2 unit. It has been a disaster. We noticed a couple days after moving in that we had bites all over our bodies. We never experienced t...
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As a new investor who may not want to start with creating an LLC right away, what are other methods that one can do to protect themselves if a lawsuit were to occur?
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To borrow or not to borrow, debt free is the way to be etc etc etc. The way I see this is a risk vs reward. How do you decide though where the risk is to great or the reward to little? How do you decide to purchase a ...
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For those of you who actively choose to invest in high crime areas, what do you make sure to factor into your numbers? -higher vacancy-higher possibility of turnover -hiring a property management company with skill an...
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Hello everyone, I have a family friend that is about to go to college and is very interested in real estate investing and says that will be his future. He asked me what he should major in and I told him business admin...
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That Atlanta market peaked on July 2007 and bottomed in March of 2012. We have since made a complete "V" shaped recovery since March 2012. At this significant bottom, and retail real estate were trading at 1996 pri...
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Hello everyone,
I sent out a couple yellow letters to people who own 4 plexes and got some responses. One guy said he would sell his four plex for 250000 that rents for 650 per unit. He said the interior is good and ...
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One of the main reasons of using LLC to buy properties is to limit the liability. I have heard investors buy each property under different LLC's to further limit the liability to just that property. I think umbrella p...