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Hi All,About once a year or so, my wife and I start fantasizing about buying a condo near the ocean in Florida. She spent most of her adult life in Hudson (near Tampa), and my Dad used to own Captain Tony’s, and owned...
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I am going to share my journey building my 16 bedroom assisted living property in Iowa. This will be my first time going into assisted living care. It took me a long time to get this deal done approximately 1.5 year...
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In addition to our long-distance real estate investment, my husband and I want to build out an attached ADU out of our 3rd garage port. Does anyone have experience, successes, or failures they learned from, while buil...
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I know BP is mostly for RE, but does anyone here also invest in any franchises? Seems like it could be as profitable if not more as a Re investment. Also, could be a good way to diversify your investments and not pu...
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Do retail home buyers care as much about home value as investors do? Investors buy to make a profit, so I can see why home values are very important to them. Retail home buyers are buying to live in the homes not to m...
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Im interested in topics related to multi-families in Astoria, New York or also Jersey City, NJ.
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Hello BPers,
I was hoping someone might have a recommendation for my financing problem.
I am a military investor who buys a house at each post I am stationed at. With a deployment, that has meant I am ...
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This came up in another thread and I thought it worth having its own discussion.
What do you think would encourage those people who come and read the site (available to non-members) to sign up and participate?
Ideas...
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Hi all
Was curious for the independent landlords (those acting as their own property manager) what's your preferred method for collecting rent and keeping costs down at the same time. I previously used an electronic ...
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I know this is an old topic, but I would like to revisit it as I'm now listing two rental homes that I own and manage myself. So this question is for landlords who also manage their own property(ies). Do you prefer to...