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I am new to real estate investing, and am looking for advice on how to research the best markets. What information do you look for? And what resources do you use to gather the information? I have decided to target ...
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TL:DR - my inspection contingency expires on Friday so I need to make a decision on this duplex in the next 2 days. I want it...and I THINK the repairs are reasonable...but I might be naive about what I'm getting myse...
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I wanted to share my thoughts on why I firmly believe that investing in single-family homes with an Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) offers a better investment opportunity in the thriving St. Petersburg and Tampa real es...
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Since it's almost the end of the year, I wanted to focus our question on ideas and strategies that can help us make last minute changes to help lessen the tax burden, or to start the year with best practices.
Let's h...
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I spent a few years in the mid west in little towns that mined lead. At one time, the real estate investors there probably thought “we use lead for everything, no way it could fail as a commodity. If I hold onto this ...
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So brief background. I started investing in the USA around 08. Ended up in Memphis and with the help of a great mentor really got going in that city. It quickly became obvious that many parts of Memphis were terrib...
I've been reading through the forums here and I've read a lot of posts about how the tenants should have the money saved up to pay rent in an emergency, and if not they should use a credit card or the money in their r...
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I got a lot of questions on my Instagram yesterday about the email we wrote to our tenants addressing this outbreak so I decided to include the letter we wrote here in case it helps anybody :) I think a lot of landlor...