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Our General Contractor is requesting a 28% downpayment upon signing the contract for rehab work, prior to any work being started and he claims that he has been doing this for decades and never had issues with that bei...
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To the High W2 earning BP members out there, what strategies have you used to decrease your W2 taxable income? Depending on what state you earn your wages, income tax rates of 40-50% are unreasonable. Most of you like...
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Since the pandemic hit in late March, many are not sure how they feel about staying at hotels or short-term rental platforms such as Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, and Tripadvisor Rentals. Airbnb, with 7.7 million active ...
I was originally going to outsource the interior and exterior paint, patching, and pressure washing for my 1200 SF SFH rental, but I ended up being way over budget on the rebuilding of a room and now am desperately tr...
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Hello everyone. I am 20 years old and am trying to start investing and learning about it now. I graduate from college next year and would like to live below my means and invest. I have 1500 saved up and don’t know wha...
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I'm living in NYC but I'm highly interested in investing in rental properties that would provide the best cash-flow out of market. I've been reading a lot about Raleigh, Columbus, and Milwaukee. I'm wondering if I'm b...
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Like many others, I have had a negative experience Joint Venture investing with Scott Carson and his company Inverse Asset Fund LLC. I’ll share my experience in the hopes that it will help others who are thinking of ...
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Hello BP Community. I wanted to share a recent experience I encountered in a wholesale transaction that fell apart on me in closing. I want to share this experience so that maybe from hearing this it can help to educa...
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Hi, I've been looking into automated ways to accept checks. Brandon Turner mentioned Dwolla on a recent podcast. I've also looked at buildium. Another user mentioned cozy.co which seems ideal. It's free and includes...
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I went to a multi family investor event today in my local area, and it turned out to basically be a sales pitch for a 3-day bootcamp that they were going to hold in my city toward the end of the month. They were charg...