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Hello, I intend qualify as a "real estate professional" (from a tax perspective) this year. Meaning, I will work more than 750 hours on real estate activities and it will be my primary job (in my case it will be likel...
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Hello BP family,
I have been working on my time management, and have noticed that when the week starts all the random events end up bringing my plans down the drain.
I'm reaching out to this amazing community, so I...
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Hi Everybody,
I'm not really new to BP, but rarely post. It always feels kind of weird to talk about yourself, but I'm at a point in my real estate investing career that I'm sure a lot of people get to or will get to...
For the last year or so I have a project manager that works with me on a lot of the re investing work. For a while we were able to divide up all the work in the field, as well as get all the paperwork done at the offi...
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I currently own and self manage 16 single family rentals, and while it hasn't been to difficult or time consuming, I intend to continue to grow my portfolio and can see a need to hand of many of the tasks I currently ...
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Hi, I am very new to all of this - just finished reading J. Scott's book. I agree that there are several perks to getting your real estate license, but I am wondering if it's worth it if I only want to use it for the...
Hello BP, i was thinking whether i should let an individual property manager who have experience working with investor or simply using a property management company to run my portfolio. What do you guys think? Is the ...
Hello! So me and my mom run STRs in the Houston, Katy and Galveston area. These aren’t very steady income and we’re looking to transition into longer term rentals. We want to try the rent per room long term strategy, ...
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I am close to completing the broker courses for Illinois, and so now I face the task of finding a place to hang my license. I was wondering if I could get the BP community's feedback on whether I should go with a trad...
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Hello BP,
I would like to hear a second opinion here regarding Real Estate Professional Status (REPS).
Background: I have a full time W2 job. My wife does not work. My wife and I formed a partnership LLC back in 201...