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I recently had a post "Out of State Investing-SCAM! False promise land of cash flow".https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/88/topics/351...I may have given the wrong message that out of state investing is not a good wa...
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GENERAL DISCUSSION:California has fires. Florida and South Carolina have hurricanes. All these insurance companies are jacking up the rates 2x-6x or cancelling policies altogether in these and many other areas. If you...
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I am a 29 year old male, married, with joint income living in Dallas. My wife and I bought our first home in Feb. 2020 for 360k (4bd/2ba), worth roughly 500k now. We were fortunate to save enough to buy a new primary ...
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First:I was a student of Brians for about 30 days before quitting the program.There were a few reasons I quit but one of the main reasons was I no longer had any trust in Brian Gibbons and the things he said he was...
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Hi everyone,My wife and I would love to move to a better house with a bigger yard in five-ish years. I want to find out if real estate investment can get us there. I think we'd need to make $3000 a month more than we ...
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We just completed one of the more important guides for landlords and I thought it important that we make it visible here on the forums. These are both MUST-READS!
Tenant Screening: The Ultimate Guide
At over 5,000+ ...
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I have been hammering away at trying to start a fix and flip real estate business of single homes in the Chicago market. I have tried pursuing several avenues to identify opportunity including knocking on homeowne...
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This is unprecedented. Once in 4-5 generation event.
I had multifamily that I was supposed to close on next week in Springfield Massachusetts. It was a great BRRRR deal given the hot market conditions. All in with re...
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Hello BiggerPockets community, we have been accepting payments from tenants using Zelle, Venmo and Paypal. Zelle and Venmo requires tenants to have an American bank account. We can receive the payment INSTANTLY and F...
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Hi, everyone! I was sitting around with a few members of a Meetup group I am in. The question was asked "if you only had $500 to start your first business, how would you use the money?" So, I thought it would be an in...