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Coming across this website and the Financial Independence subreddit, I've gotten an itch to increase my rental real estate portfolio to start generating residual income. My wife and I sat down together to look at our...
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It's a daily occurrence that somebody creates a thread here on BP talking about how bad their Realtor is, and how Agents all suck etc....Myself, I'm licensed and have sold over $200 Million, so it's a fair assessment ...
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This seems to be a widely held mantra here. If you buy in a high appreciation market, you're not investing, you are speculating. That's not something I have ever heard here in Hawaii. Probably because it's not true...
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It is almost daily that I see a new question or concern about Wraps and Sub2 here. It got me wondering just how many folks are aware of outcomes of some of those practices really are. It also begs the question, just...
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Was it a big name and/or guru like Carleton Sheets, Donald Trump or Robert Kiyosaki or was it your parents, an uncle, a college buddy?
(Seeing as I'm new here; I apologize if this has been discussed before.)
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OK, I have been going it alone attempting to wholesale for about 3 months now and I have not made that first deal yet. I live about five minutes from DCREIA and its "Dean" Sherman Ragland lives in my development on t...
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Hey all!Hypothetical but very a real question:With little to no money to start your REI career. If you could perform the BRRR strategy, factoring in ALL EXPENSES. Cap Ex., Vacancies, Etc...And broke dead even to beg...