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It's the start of a new year and the end of my first year of real estate investing. Just wanted to quickly share my story and hopefully inspire some people :)Literally 13 months ago, I had 0 interest or education abou...
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Since 2008 I have bought around 200 units - mostly 1-4 unit buildings. Since I started I wanted to buy apartment buildings, but I finally broke the ice with out of state apartment purchases. I have now purchased 108 u...
My dad has a self storage facility with:
1) 15,000 sq/ft warehouse (no environment control)
2) 2,000 sq/ft office with 2 bathrooms and 4 rooms 3) 16,000 sq/ft drive up self storage4) about 40 parking spaces
All o...
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Hello everyone,
As a newbie investor, I am trying to learn as much as I can before taking the plunge. I started the process of learning over a year ago, but I still feel no closer to making my first purchase. By acci...
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I was recently searching for an investment property. I came across a very nice 3 family that was updated. The owner had listed with an agent and had no real offers for over 2 months. They had lowered the price by $4...
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I am currently 20 years old and have been doing a lot of research in regard to Whole Life insurance with the main idea of using it as a savings vehicle and having access to the cash value I can use as a future down pa...
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I've had a roth IRA and a mutual fund thru Northwestern mutual for just under 2 years. I'm 23, I wanted to get started early so I can buy a business with the money some day. I don't trust the guy that is in charge of ...
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Howdy BP! I'm hoping to get some feedback before I make a mess out of an already sticky situation.Here's the deal: On a duplex I recently purchased, the upper unit was vacated before I took possession. Cool, because t...
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ive started a bandit sign campaign that's gotten nothing but attention from old hags that are "bothered" by signs that are put up 50 ft away from their residence .
ive received 2 inquiries so far and 1 guy si...
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I posted a thread a few days ago called why do we invest? There were a lot of good replies on that thread with many bigger pockets members listing their goal of 5000, 10,000, 12,000, or $20,000, per month for retireme...