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Hi,
My husband and I have made the affirmative decision to begin investing in real estate around this time next year. We both have day jobs and our long term goal is to be completely running and managing our...
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Some of you have, or do, live(d) next door to your tenants. What are your top 3 con's from that experience or at least 1 thing you might not have thought of that would have been an issue.
I'm working on cop...
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Hey everyone, I just joined BP yesterday. I'm from the Birmingham area. I'm just getting started & really interested in real estate investing, specifically starting out with a duplex, triplex or 4 plex, possibly f...
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Hi,I just wanted to take a poll to see if any investors had a preference between Elance or Odesk or do some of you use them interchangeably? I started with Odesk and now I'm exploring Elance.Does it come down to a mat...
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I've been looking into every door direct mail. I'd love to hear thoughts and results from the BP masses with experience. Do you hit every route in the zip? If not, how do you decide which routes?What type of mail pi...
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I currently have my first deal under contract (duplex w/ 8 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms). I will living on the first floor (bedroom 1 and 2) and renting the other 6 bedrooms by the room. Does anyone have any experience wi...
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Let's talk about it. How is our situation in 2020 different from the 2008 crisis? What strategies worked then that will not work now; which ones will be just as successful?
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Hello! Any lease-option sellers out there that can help me? If the lease is for two years, how do you calculate a reasonable buy price at the end of the lease if the buyer exercises the buy option? I have tons more qu...
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I have read numerous threads on here about Notes with FCI, Granite & Kondaur, I also read people saying "Any note bought online is junk" , "The seller is just looking for the next bigger idiot."Any Note investors...
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So I started my investing career as just a guy trying to get more money to pay off bills.
I was tired of living check to check like everyone else. I'm not going to go into that story because it's the same for most pe...