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Hello everyone!
I'm 22 years old from Long Island. I work in New York City as a Paramedic as I finish my degree in Health Science at Stony Brook University. I've always been looking for that other way to build wealth...
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the Search function is awful.
Let me again say that I really do love the site. It's great.
But, also again, searching is much too difficult. We don't have the option to search by title only, nor can we sort forum ...
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Hello everyone!So I've been a member going on four years now. Never even filled out my profile until recently. I always had an interest in real estate, but at the time that I joined I was looking around for differe...
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Hello all, Hoping to get some first-hand knowledge and/or opinions on the best southside Chicago sub markets for apartment building investments. I've heard that Woodlawn, Bronzeville, and Jackson Park highlands are ...
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Baltimore tax sale is going on as I write this. Getting blown out. Extreme competition in our space. Typically there would be only on or two other bidders on the low end properties. Today we have 4-8 bidders even o...
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I am seeing a lot of properties for sale in Decatur area, lots of multifamilies too. It seems like every week i see a few more. Is there something going on in that area that everyone is cashing out? I look at some the...
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I was reading around the net and read quite a few articles that people use their student loan money to REI. I am active duty army and therefore my college is 100% paid for. I have an investor who is older and wants to...
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Californians aren’t leaving the state en masse — but they are leaving San Francisco, study sayshttps://www.latimes.com/califo...
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I recently wrote an article on 3 Web Sites that really transformed our real estate investing business from 2010 to now. At a time when we were working hard to improve every facet of our company, we also began to use ...
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Is it a bad idea to go directly through the listing agent to purchase a property? If I choose to go through a realtor, (found him through Realtor.com) does that agent automatically become a buyers agent? Any insight w...