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I am now taking a real estate licensing course in NY in hopes of gaining an introductory knowledge about the business. Is this a good idea if my aspirations are to invest and rehab properties? And do the bindin...
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Hi Folks,I've been looking at communities surrounding my area (Portland and SW Washington) and considering investing there for a buy and hold strategy. I am wondering, though, if I should be excluding any of them by ...
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Admittedly, the challenges facing entrepreneurs are daunting. As reported in the Arizona Republic, nearly 2 in 5 business owners have come close to failing. In fact, 13 percent said that they had previously owned a bu...
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Hello im starting out and this might sound like a dumb question but I want to know if you always need a real estate agent when buying a fix and flip property that you find by driving by it or is sent to you by a whole...
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The book Rich Dad Poor Dad is frequently sited by people as being a great book for real estate investors and I have no idea why. I read the book and I found it to be poorly written, incredibly repetitive, lacking any...
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From reading the forum and understanding what other investors are doing to get responses from direct mail. It seems like a majority of members on BP are using yellow letters. Yellow letters seems to get a higher respo...
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How do you see your market? Have sales or prices peaked? What are the unique characteristics affecting your market? Where do you see it in 1-2 years?In Austin, sales are still high, but down a little from last year...
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Hey guys. I'm an emerging real estate developer in the NYC area. I've been exploring the pathways of raising capital for new projects, which led me to crowdfunding. My background is in investment banking and with th...
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Well, some of you may recall that some months ago I posted a flip blog for the Heart Attack house. We bought two houses, side by side, on a street in a developing area. The Heart Attack house was a gut-out renovation....