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Hi everybody! My name is James and I live in San Luis Obispo, CA, the happiest town in America, according to Oprah and many other people. I am 26 and married my beautiful wife last June and am loving life right now. I...
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should i buy an apartment/condo to rent out as my first investment property?
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Hello all!I have been listening the BP podcast for months now and finally decided to create a BP account. I have recently moved to Norfolk, VA for work - I am an accountant at a local CPA firm. I was born and raised...
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I'm thinking of subscribing to Rentometer, especially since they have a $45 a year special going on right now. Any feedback or better tools? I do also use Craigslist and RentCafe and my buyer agent sometimes has relia...
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I've read "Short Term Rental, Long Term Wealth" and the direction is to use STR-specific data companies such as AirDna, but to focus more on the aggregate area data instead of individual property data. The other thing...
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I know the mortgage interest and any expenses associated with the rental property are tax deductible but, is the down payment of a rental property tax deductible?If I put $40,000 down on a rental property, can I deduc...
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I'm looking to start with Multi-Family (duplex/triplex). I have my own home so this will have be as an investor with 20% down. I know there are things I need to do to analyze if the deal is a good one, like rental ra...
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I'm a new PRO member, as of about 3 days ago, and an investor with a tiny bit of experience in rentals and fix and flips. I'm taking a much more "business owner" type approach to investing now than I did before.I am ...
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Hello Everyone,I'm a new investor for the second time around. I owned 6 rental units in a previous life, went about it all wrong, absolutely hated it and sold them all off 7 years ago (that's actually how I met my wif...
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Hello all!
My wife and I recently started a real estate investing LLC in the West Palm Beach, FL Area. We own a rental property in GA that was our private home when I was stationed there for the Air Force but are ho...