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Should I be worried if a contractor wants a 50% deposit (initial payment) on a 15 K interior paneling project? The material cost for this project is very linear over time. The first 100 square feet of paneling costs t...
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Hello,
Resident wants to break lease because they want to buy a house. I told them no.
Their lease expires April of 2020. They then asked to leave in January, but also pay the balance on the remaining months on le...
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Hi biggerpockets friends,
It's my first post on the forum and I would like to get some help on starting my first investment property. I have around 250-320k cash to invest.
I live in the South Bay where houses are e...
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I'm asking this as a fellow forum user, not a moderator. About four months ago, someone within BiggerPockets split the Landlording & Rental Properties forum and created multiple subcategories. The image below show...
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What's up with all the low income, cheap property "deals"? "I bought a house for $30,000 and rent it out for $700! I'm going to make a great return!"You are completely neglecting future CAPEX. What happens when you ne...
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I'm starting this thread because I am going to keep a running update on my first flip.
Today I have got the OK for all the funding I will need for my 1st home purchase / flip !! :cool:
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One thing that continually boggles my mind, and I often hear on podcasts, is how are people able to scale so quickly and buy their 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th properties so quickly after the first (often within a year of buyin...
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