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Hi All,
My name is Florence and I'm very new to real estate and to the United States (I hail from New Zealand). I'm newly married and my husband and I rent a townhouse in San Mateo, California. Before I met m...
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I’m a first time investor and I was wondering if I can use my traditional IRA with Fidelity to invest in Real Estate? There is an opportunity I’m looking into but it seems when I research on line about using my IRA it...
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Just getting started in real estate and I keep seeing asset protection as being very important. How do I determine what kind of protection to have S-Corp LLC or both? Can anyone explain how I could have both and what ...
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Experian says my FICO is 816. My lender showed me my credit report that she pulled and Experian says my FICO is 695. When I asked my lender about this, her reply was that there's a consumer FICO and a lender FICO th...
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When applicants are applying do you require they complete the application first and after you review and wish to proceed, you then request approval to request the credit/background/criminal check? Or do you have the ...
I recently was offered a pension lump sum payout by a previous employer. As a 45 year old, I have a few years left until retirement. I have 13 vested years with this previous employer with a monthly payment estimate...
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Greetings everyone!
Thank you for the warm welcome. I had some time to browse through some articles and sort of getting bit overwhelmed with various jargons and lingos used around. At the same time, little bits and p...
So I’ve finally been able to convince my wife that this is the way to secure our and our children’s future. Now my issue is I’d like to bring my father in on this but he is farmland Illinois super conservative type. H...
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Hey BP community,
I recently joined BP and I see it's a very active community for networking. I have spoken to all walks of life from residential investors to commercial office space investors and real estate dev...