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Hello BP. I was hoping to get some advice from the direct mailing experts out there. I will be purchasing an address list from ListSource, and after running through their options, below is the criteria list I came up ...
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Hi Everyone, I apologize in advance for the wall of text. I have some ideas on how I want to get started in this business and I was hoping that this might be the right place to get a reality/gut-check.
First, some ge...
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I am about a week from closing on my first rental property, a 4 plex apartment with 1 vacant apartment and 3 apartments rented on a month by month lease. The current owner inherited the 4 plex from his dad after he pa...
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I just showed my vacant unit to a couple yesterday, who later emailed me and said they were seriously interested and wanted an application.
I sent the application yesterday, and just now he asked if they could see th...
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Hi all,I am going to start investing in rental properties from this fall/winter 2023.I have a full-time job and will keep it so my strategy will be as passive as possible, such as buy-and-hold.with 7.5% mortgage and m...
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I currently have 3 single family home for long term rent, and they are all in Houston. All single-family homes built in 2009~2015. I purchased through a local realtor that I know for years and I have been managing a...
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We are set to close on our first investment property in mid-April. The unit it is a duplex with one of the units rented by a tenant for about 6 years. We were under the impression that the tenant was paying $650 per ...
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Hi! So curious what you guys would do in our position.
We bought a house in Seattle (White Center) five years ago and it has appreciated around 200K so far. Each year, we spent a few months in Michigan and we Airbnb’...
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I've been on this site for ten years, providing honest feedback to people, and today, for the first time that I am aware of, some moderator removed my posts in a forum where the OP was calling me names in every one of...
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Most big time investors tell you to skip SFH and jump straight to multi -units. If you have the stomach to invest at least $100k in your first real estate deal without any knowledge and extensive knowledge then go ah...