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Do you see your personal home as an investment or an expense? I'm on my second duplex that I bought to live in, improve, and then rent. My next home will likely be a single family and in a nicer neighborhood. I'm n...
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Hey all- I'm an investor in Austin, TX and have been investing in real estate here for about 6 years. We're considering some investments outside our of local area and wanted to get some opinions from the BP community ...
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Economic Update
(Monday, August 17, 2020)
The pandemic has reinforced and exacerbated many of the inequities in our soci...
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BP,I am just getting my start in real estate investing with the intention of it becoming my full time career within 3-5 years from now. My current living situation is living in an apartment with my long time girlfrie...
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I’m a dad with a non-working wife and a son. Not much more to add.I’m working as an SEO and another job, and I want to become an investor. How did you get started with investing?
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My husband and I have lived in Southern California all of our lives. Our families live here and we love the weather but it stops there. My husband commutes about an hour and a half to work That was the only way ...
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In large markets what is anyone doing to compete with the guys that have a 20K per month marketing budget. Here in the Dallas Fort Worth area there are multiple Homevestor operations that spend this much or more. What...
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I don't understand people who are long term tenants, and the logic behinds it bothers me. They are paying monthly rent to other people, which doesn't make sense to me. If they have money to pay rent each month for lon...
I'm a 19-year-old college student in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I recently talked to a doctor who is aspiring to live in Manhattan, New York about real estate.When I asked him about how I wanted to start investing in r...