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Hello BP,Often in my search for good deals, I get excited and can't think logically especially when I find something that is out of my usual criteria.I think I've found a good deal though.My wife and I were looking at...
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I'm seeing wholesalers here in AZ asking 80% ARV flat (no reduction for repairs). Even a light cleaning would take at least 1 month of holding + closing costs on both sides. Almost every "deal" that's hit my Inbox nee...
I am looking for the guys who live and breathe this business with ACTUAL notches on their belts, rather than just completing the latest and greatest seminar (no offense, as I am a rookie too) to evaluate my proposed r...
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Hey BP,
So I just stated my first flip in Chandler Az! Super excited to hit the ground running. Contracts have been signed, closing is set to take place on the 20th of March. As an added bonus, the sellers sold the h...
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Hi All,I have found the vast majority of Real Estate Investors do not use a Hard Money Loan as a source of funding their deals simply due to the fact that they do not know enough about the process. In the RE Investmen...
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Hello all, I know the basics already that I need to secure financing, get pre-approved for a loan, do my analysis on some properties I am interested in and of course find a realtor and just check out some homes. Now s...
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Warren Buffett when asked about his time horizon for investments. He answered with "Our favorite stock holding period is forever.” That got me wondering about real estate as I know folks in the boomer generation that ...
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I have been in a bit of a funk over recently. I currently buy and hold. I have 23 doors all of which cash flow on paper, but don't in reality. I have a budget spreadsheet that I update each year based on previous yea...
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Hi BiggerPockets community!
I have a PhD in Theoretical Chemistry/Quantum Dynamics... https://pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/article/142/24/244112/74387 ... and I literally designed and built my own house off of 30A in Florida...
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Last year I posted a thread “It’s 2018–Whatcha Gonna Do About It?” and it got a lot of great response. So why not do it again? Every year around this time I see threads on BP asking about your goals for the coming n...