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I'll start from the beginning, because there are lots of little details I need to explain in order for you guys to fully understand the situation. (All names are substituted by fake ones for privacy reasons.)In April ...
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Hello everyone,
I was wondering if anyone has ever herd of this guru Sean Whalen who is the owner of what used to be the Empower Group and is now called property 23? From the research I have done he looks like another...
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OK, I have been going it alone attempting to wholesale for about 3 months now and I have not made that first deal yet. I live about five minutes from DCREIA and its "Dean" Sherman Ragland lives in my development on t...
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Hi BP! My husband and I live in the SF Bay Area where home prices have risen substantially in past years. We want to leverage some of our home equity and use that equity as down payment for our 2nd rental prop. We'...
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I am new to investing in general, but have been doing a lot of research and am eager to get started in real estate. I live in San Diego. I am mostly interested in buy and hold rental properties and learning that busin...
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Hello, Happy New Year Who do you think is at fault? Story time. So we had a non-paying tenant whose lease wasn't renewed and refused to leave. We started the eviction process. The PM change the electric utility to the...
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Today I'm working on taxes and finalizing my Solo 401k set up, yes tons of fun...not my favorite way to spend a sunny 75 degree Saturday in San Diego!
That said, I need some guidance on next steps.
Step...
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Big question - why hasn't anyone applied data science and machine learning in the real estate domain?With the recent (7 years?) advances in natural language processing, image recognition and the validation of various ...
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Syndication and apartments, in general, is an opportunistic play. Most things being sold don't make it past the most cursory underwriting.ow did syndication become a model? A model implies a system, and I think of a s...
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We signed up for Connected Investors 9-4-16. At the same time we where gullible enough to likewise put out information through the CiX site looking for lenders. Allegedly all the lenders on the CiX site have been vett...