Hi All
I'm very new to BP, and to real estate investing in general, so I've come to the forums for wisdom.
I live in California, which makes getting started in real estate rather difficult, and I'm looking at out of...
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I need help! Im looking to start investing and just want to go out and finance a 10-20 unit apartment building. Is this a good idea?
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On your short term rentals how much of that rent do you actually put in your pocket? I understand some of the things you have to pay for such as utilities, WiFi, furniture. But what are some of the other costs associa...
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Hey everyone,I'm just kind of looking for some general advice/tips as to how to go about meshing being an agent and an investor. I'm sure a bunch of you have done the same thing, getting your license to make your inve...
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Hiya BP community - I am an investor & STR host in Annapolis, Maryland. I have been hosting my SFH property in both VRBO and Airbnb for nearly two years. Had a record year last year and I am thinking with a bit mo...
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I'm looking for my first investment property in Chicago markets. I'm interested in higher-than-average income neighborhood, even better with upside possibility (gentrifying). I'm mostly looking at urban, smaller size ...
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Been interested in investing in Real Estate for over a year now. Just been trying to learn as much as I can through books and podcast. I own a home in Round Rock, Texas and it’s worth about 190,000. Still have some...
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What expectations do you place on a realtor when you are selling a property?Open houses? Color flyers? Anything else?
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On the one hand, it's awesome to have an investor agent looking for properties for you: they know the parts of town that are heating up in investor activity, they know how to run cap rate numbers, etc. Here's my dile...
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There's a ton of FB groups where people claim to be a lender but turns out they are not individual private lenders or are part of a "network", which is fine. Would like to know how you tell if they are legit, especial...