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Going through a traditional mortgage or conventional loan is pretty straight forward. But, private or hard money just sounds like Lucky Luciano will be knocking on my door asking for double the interest....Does the ol...
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As I respond to new member posts, I often sense and urgency to get a first deal. I also sense many investor drop out because they don't get a deal aft two or three months.
It's my belief that is is probably 6-8 mont...
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I wanted to share my experience, frequently I'm contacted about direct mail marketing from listeners of the BP Podcast I was interviewed on in 2014. It was an honor to be interviewed, while the mindset and business or...
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So, I'm currently browsing all the easy listing engines, zillow, realtor, the rest, trying to get a feel for what's available, what things are priced at etc... and simultaneously bouncing that off an interesting recen...
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Someone sent me this email so I wanted to post it less as much of the political spin as I could subtract as possible to get a sense for how much of it is accurate. Here are taxes that will be coming for 2011 accordin...
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This topic has probably been done to death.However would like to hear from fellow investors on what has worked for youFor me its been pretty basic, just buy property that is cash flow positive from day 1, distressed p...
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Hey guys, looking for some advice. I just closed on my first rental last week. The sellers move out in 3 days. My wife and I went ahead and posted the house on the community facebook page a few hours ago and got tons ...
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Hello! I'm a NEWBIE to wholesaling so please don't judge. I'm trying it out for the first time. I just bought 109 absentee owner leads for $50 on Melissadata.com/direct (January 1, 2020). & I'm using a website cal...
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Baltimore tax sale is going on as I write this. Getting blown out. Extreme competition in our space. Typically there would be only on or two other bidders on the low end properties. Today we have 4-8 bidders even o...