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It took me a while to pay off my first 2 rentals. I then bought a duplex about a month ago. I want to scale my business. I am real fortunate in my life right now bc I don’t have children and I’m not married so I can r...
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Hello Investors,I'm looking to invest out of state and wanted to ask you experienced real estate investors about your rental portfolio.- Which market is your preferred location to purchase rental properties? Why?- Wha...
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I've have guys doing rehab work without a contract, and I pay them with checks out of a business account. They're licensed, but this is "side-work" for them. They do good work and don't charge a lot, so I thought ever...
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Hey guys, I want to apologize if a similar strategy has ever been discussed, I've been a floater on the forums for a long time now and haven't seen anything like this, so I decided to actually post for the first time....
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I'm looking for some advice on this nightmare of a property I just purchased. I just purchased my 1st investment property and I decided to go with a Turnkey property from Norada Real Estate Investments, because I real...
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I am REALLY confused about what to do. My wife and I have grown our flipping business over the past couple of years to doing 10 flips currently.I was just getting ready to quit my job that pays $150,000/year to focus ...
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When I first started out in this biz, I read a ton of books, attended a ton of seminars and paid for training/bootcamps from the gurus (my only real mistake). After having a solid foundation under my belt as far as ed...
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Hi all, this forum has been very informative so far and has put a few of the pieces together for me. However, I am in need of some clarification. (I hope we aren't limited on the length of posts :) )My questions are s...
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When I first started in real estate investing I had multiple lenders tell me “no, you can’t lend on that”. And I took their word for it. I thought “If one or two say no, then they all must say no”. And that was com...
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I always purchase a listed property from the listing agent and never use an outside agent. During the last run on property 2000-2007 I lost so many properties because of unscrupulous realtors. I mean realtors were r...