Hey wise people, I found myself in a bit of a predicament, and I am hoping you all can give me some insight. I bought a house and closed on July 2018. Below are the details: Purchase price: 205K, 3% down, 5% interest ...
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I'm still in the learning phases, but trying to both stabalize my income and also figfure out how I could invest in real estate while working fulltime 40-50 hours a week. I imagine there is a lot of work and things th...
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I visit fairly often with investors looking at a certain vacation rental property to make an offer on. I am not a realtor, so I cannot give advice as though I am one, but there are some guidelines that I have used pe...
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Hello All,I know this is a very common question, but I'm curious what people will say. We recently sold a duplex that was no longer a good investment and made about 160K off of it. I still have about 50K in student de...
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One of the biggest obstacle in this field has to be the lack of professionalism and work ethics from contractors. I feel that we constantly have to baby sit them and tell them how to do their job the right way, and on...
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I have owned and operated properties since 2007, and have always had a NO smoking and NO pets policy. As of late, I am getting a lot of requests for needing a "service animal" or "therapy animal". I don't know if this...
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We've all new to this game at some point. What was the biggest mistake you made when getting started? Did you discriminate against someone?Did you find your lease in the bottom of a Cracker Jack box?Did you let emotio...
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So I just got off the phone with my financial advisor and he said I'm doing well but he's concerned I'm over leveraged on real estate. He's concerned that if we experience another recession that I will be stuck holdin...
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