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Good Morning Fellow BPer's!I have a situation that has come up recently with a rental unit that I have and wanted to see what the communities thoughts are. My tenant recently passed away 11 months into a 2 yr lease i...
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So I've realized that I am one of "those people". Lazy. Motivated but I don't follow through. Disorganized, so my life is full of crises that show up due to my poor planning. Self-important, so I have a hard time dele...
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Hello everyone. I have been listening to the podcasts for a year and a half and have been waiting for the right time to start my account on Bigger Pockets. While I was simply learning I knew if I started an account ...
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Good morning. I'm a new investor looking to buy the first rental property in the Philly/South Jersey area. I'm a buy-and-hold type and I'm looking in the following areas Gloucester city (New Jersey, right across from ...
Hi All,
I appreciate this site and its forums and articles very much; my husband and I have learned much from all your valuable insight.
We purchased our first home in Napa, CA in March 2010 for $269,500. We purcha...
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Hello bp community. Have known about the site for awhile and it's awesome.I owned a property in Arizona before, but lost it. So now that I'm in Los Angeles area, I want to invest in real estate without using my cred...
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Hello to all in the BP community! First post here.My brother and I have been approached by a friend to help finance new home construction in Fort Worth TX. We have just become interested in REI recently. Our friend i...
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I'm just curious whether hard money loans are ever collateralized by anything other than the real estate being purchased. I'm reading an application that sounds as if my personal assets would back the loan. That even ...
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I have access to about 225k cash. I'm trying to figure out if buying another property and renting it is a better than being a private lender. My husband and I are very busy with our current day jobs, I own a busine...
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I’m doing my first flip funded with private money. 2 lenders, actually. Any suggestions on whether I should open a separate checking/savings acct to clearly report use of funds? I don’t want to over complicate the...