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I'm a spec home builder, along with my husband. To this point we've stayed in our lane of doing ground up construction spec homes. That's been our niche. We have never used any lenders, we've never considered doing a ...
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Even as someone who spends all day, every day thinking about BiggerPockets and constantly striving to make the community bigger and better, I still have a TON of trouble quickly explaining who and what we are to frien...
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Hi,I'm a new member from Texas who is currently employed in the energy industry. I first heard about BiggerPockets thru an iTunes podcast a few months ago. The knowledge sharing, suggested ideas and personal stories t...
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I am a newbie and in fact, really just looking for honest feedback from the experts, you. :) I have always wanted to look at flipping houses and in fact bought a small "hobby" house in Vermont to get some experience i...
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Hello my name is Sharonda. I'm new to real estate investing. I have never purchased a property yet. I hope through this site I will be able to obtain some knowledge to how I can get started.
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Hello BiggerPockets Folks!I am new to BiggerPockets, and I am looking forward to networking with you all. I am 33 years old, and I work a FT job in Southern California. My main goal is to get out of the rat race, an...
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Hi BP Denver Landlord friends, ever notice that when it rains it pours? We recently had the furnace replaced in one of our newer rentals, only to find that the hot water heater was equally shoddy and needed replaceme...
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Trying to get my head wrapped around the "line of credit" on a rental property. I found a bank that would do a LOC on a paid for rental property. My thought was to have a LOC just as "available" funds vs cash out refi...
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Hey guys, I've been trying to explore more into the commercial side of Real estate (with an emphasis on storage units) and I have noticed that there are far fewer resources to learn about the commercial side vs reside...
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If someone invests capital gains in an Opportunity Zone in 2019, holds the property for 7 years and does improvements, they only have to pay capital gain tax on 85% of capital gains invested.My question is does the ex...