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I am curious how many of you guys own your own home? I ask because my focus for the past several years has been paying off the mortgage. Now that I can see the light at the end of the tunnel I can feel comfortabl...
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As an experienced real estate investor and now also a private lender, I often get asked the question: "If I am a newbie and lenders don't want to lend to newbies, how can I get money for my first deal?"
Looki...
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working on the latest house (buy and hold) and my main contractor is not living up to my expectations. I have used him before a few times and did not have a problem. In the past, he'd quote something and i had him do ...
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So we have been actively looking for investment properties for 2 years now. Fortunately we were able to purchase one and are in the rehab process. But even getting the first one took finding 3 realtors. So here is the...
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I'm curious to hear from other Vancouver Island investors to see if you have been able to locate any buy and hold opportunities with cash flow? I'm over in Courtenay and not having much luck here lately. My wife and ...
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This is my first try and after a stressful rehab, I've been on the market for 68 days. It is priced at $290k, $13k below Zillow estimate. I've had multiple agents go through the house and run CMA's and they are coming...
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HiI am a newbie investor. I am interested in investing out of state as I live in California and our tenants rights are awful here. It is so difficult to get rid of bad tenants....plus the ROI here is not great. I a...
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This is my first flip and I think it turned out great, the problem is I can get it to sell. I have done "for sale by owner" and now with an agent. Had a bunch of showings when I started with the agent but it has ...
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Hey all. Very confused on where to start with sooo much info out there so let me tell you where I’ve come from. So I guess I am new to investing… kinda. I actually had a failed rental home years ago due to it being s...
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There is nothing sane about what you have to be prepared to do in order to make a start in this business. Please take that as a given. The only thing I can fully agree with Grant Cardone about is his statement that re...