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I'll try to be brief, lol.I'm trying to get prepped a bit before seriously looking for my first deal (wholesale or flip). Background:I cannot get any first time home buyer breaks and can't house hack. I have no high v...
So a little bit about my background before I dive in: I previously have owned rental properties before (back in 2018 - 2019). Those properties we all bought in cash (no leverage) they were lower end properties that ca...
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I’m on my first flip, and the official start for renovations was November 1st 2018. I was told it would take 12 weeks to complete the project and now we are well past that and still having issues. All of a sudden I ne...
I am not sure there is really a good thread here in BP which address this question. I know there are many blogs but those do not provide expanded conversations around the idea, IMO. If you are a seasoned, new or pot...
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Since I mostly just look and give instructions to the Super, it was a real "turn back the clock" moment for me recently when I was trying to meet an inspection deadline-not enough manpower to get everything done. The...
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This is a brief overview of how I went from a family business employee (with 7 children), only earning 60k/yr, filing bankruptcy in early 2016, to someone who will be completely financially free 18 months after I purc...
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As I was poking around at the relationships between jobs and potential predictors of job losses, I started looking at a mathematical representation of something less quantitative, that we are all familiar with. This s...