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How do application fees work for rental units? What are some examples? Do tenants get this money back if they get accepted as tenants and not if they do not get accepted? I know one example of these fees is late rent ...
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First of all thanks to all the people that gave me advice on advertising. Got a sign in the yard and I'm on craigslist. No less than 5 minutes after post on CL, somebody called my cell. I was laughing and had to tr...
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Here’s rant #2 for the day. I have a preliminary call in a few minutes with a person that wants to get into private lending and wants to engage our loan consulting side to assist. When we asked “what they were current...
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Hi everyone,My brother and I are just getting started in the wonderful world of rentals. BP has been am extraordinary source of i formation we have been at it for a few months and will have two properties ready to g...
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Any tax guru here can help me confirm this: even I spend more than 750 hours/year on real estate activities (managing my own rentals and being a RE agent), because I have another full time job (computer engineer) so m...
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Greetings, I'm a very well educated business professional that's in the process of opening a Real Estate Investment company. I have a very strong and successful background in Real Estate, Fleet Renewal, Visual Merchan...
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Hey Guys,First off I'd like to thank BP and the community here as I believe this is an amazing opportunity for investors. I truly appreciate all of the resources that BP provides and all of the time and advice the com...
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Investment Info:
Single-family residence fix & flip investment.
Purchase price: $170,000
Cash invested: $170,000
Sale price: $410,000
We took this house down to the studs - it was basically a...
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Can some help me with any info on doing background checks on a possible tenant. Also some info on doing credit checks on possible tenants. Thank You
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I'm currently in the process of beginning my real estate investing journey. I've been doing a lot of preparation work such as putting together the tools need to scan and find good deals, screen tenants, secure source...