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Just wanted to know what keeps you going and what MOTIVATES you. Some do a deal or two or more a month. Some don't do any deals, but continue to try and stay in the game. My question is specific. What keeps you...
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We have to be at a top.1. What's the biggest forum? New member intros.2. What direction can interest rates go? Only one, and when rates go up, building values go down.3. Ben wants out.I rest my case.;-)
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Good to be back BP, after being away from forums and BP in general I am happy to have more time to learn and help others with my most recent experience. In March we purchased a home from the City of Milwaukee as a no...
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So, in the last few months I have been doing some background work on how to start investing in the RE market. Given the $ I had for investing, I decided to focus more on buying foreclosure properties and flipping them...
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Hi Everyone!We took possession of our first rental on July 15th and we are self-managing it. We've prepared a pre-screening questionnaire with guidance from Heather & Brandon Turner's Managing Rental Properties b...
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I have a tenant who is month to month and is a lawyer who has a checkered past to put it nicely, he is a felon, but has been given his law license back. He has stopped paying rent, and told me he will not pay, or move...
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Hey everyone. I am new to BP and I currently do not have any investment properties. I plan to close on something this coming March. I have the idea of starting out with a single family or a condo/townhome for a rental...
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hi BP
just another curiosity post.
I have NEVER successfully flipped a property.
hoping to flip my first this year...although I am thinking it may turn into a buy/hold
my first flip, turned into rental and then sol...
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The applicant, a single woman, has 4 kids. My rental in Baltimore city has two legal bedrooms plus a 3rd "bonus room" upstairs that has no exterior window or closet, so we advertise it as a 2-bedroom. Occupancy guidel...