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I posted this elsewhere but figured I'd share my 5+ year ongoing story of buying rental properties to encourage members here. Personal Background
Most of my childhood was spent growing up inside a tenant house on a...
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Why I'm Triggered
Every week I read stories on social media about someone’s unfortunate situation driven by the increasing cost of housing and wages that have not kept up….and I’m sick of it.
Part of me wants to mes...
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I have always been fascinated with real estate.I started in 2000 investing in a couple rental houses.My "AHA" moment came in 2008 to move away from the single rentals and graduate up to large apartment complexes.My ba...
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Hi to all investors out there, hope you have any advise or resource to help me out.About 3 weeks ago I paid about $41,000 to a real estate investing company. After I have paid, their attitude and responsibility promis...
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I'm currently in the process of refinancing a 2 family house which has two 4 bedroom 3 bath units in it. There are a shortage of multifamily comps in my area and the comps that were used are all 2 bedroom 1 bath two ...
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Romney named Paul Ryan as his choice for V.P. candidate... Personally, I love it, and think it will get the focus on the economy and solutions for America. WHAT DO YOU THINK?
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Hello BP Community!In efforts to give back to the community, I wanted to document the process of acquiring my first turnkey property through Spartan Invest. I know when I was first researching the forums, case studies...
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Executive Summary:Because of the real estate I own, and prospective potential purchases, I wanted to know more about where we are in the real estate cycle in the SF Bay Area. Inspired by great students and researchers...
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So as many know the SB1070 was to go into place at 12:01am tonight but the judge just ruled blocking the KEY components of the law.
Law enforcement are not required to make a reasonable attempt to determine immigrat...
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https://www.foxnews.com/us/102-year-old-california-woman-evicted-so-landlords-daughter-can-move-inThis guy is evicting a 102 year old woman so his daughter can move in to the apartment. The woman had been living there...