Hello all! We bought a short sale home for 180K that we are looking to rent in Westmont, IL about 2 weeks ago. Rent will be $1,800/month. I made the mistake of showing the house before all repairs/painting were made. ...
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So to be honest, when i first started out I thought the whole mentality thing wreaked of the charlatan/guru sales pitch that I originally shrugged at in real estate. However, now that I actually have properties, I fin...
I own a home in the Sugarhouse neighborhood of Salt Lake City. I bought it in 2012 as my primary residence for 136,000 on a 203k FHA. I refinanced out of the FHA to a conventional 15 year in 2015. I currently only h...
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Lumber Prices Notch Records on Building, Remodeling Boom
Lumber prices have shot to fresh records, defying the normal winter slowdown in wood-product sales in a sign that the pandemic building boom is bowling i...
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hey guys I'm in search of my first investment property. I currently live in South jersey and was thinking about investing in a multifamily property in atlantic city. does anybody here own any property in AC or have y...
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Hello,I'm new to the community but wanted to share my success story of my first home purchase. My wife and I live in Las Vegas NV full time but we have a home in a small town of Alabama called Grand Bay (near the MS ...
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Hello All, My name is Benjamin. I am a traditional buy and hold property investor. My grandma has always had rental homes and my mother always wanted to. They were the first ones to show me how using property as an in...
Hello everyone. My name is Tom, and I'm an experienced buyer/seller in the Central Florida area. I have flipped several SFH's in the area and have several buy/hold rentals. I've purchased through wholesalers and real ...
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Hi again! I introduced myself awhile back here but just after that I fell into a lot of reading and some of the learning curve that can be massive (which I am still in btw). I live in Tyler, Texas and I spend a lot o...
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Greetings All,
I own a triplex and this summer I am working on getting it renovated so that it will be profitable and run itself. As of now utilities (electricity, water, gas and sewage) are a flat rate of $100 per u...