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Hi BP family!Recently purchased our first rental home in Baltimore City, Maryland using Hard Money. We need to confirm whether we can turn the basement into a 3rd bedroom. The house is currently listed as 2 bed, 1 bat...
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All:As an investor in the student rental market for over 13 years, I have increasingly seen new investors purchasing student rental property without finding out what is and what isn't allowed in a college town (full d...
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I am currently running into a road block with local bank (DFW area) and our mortgage company that services the loan now. I bought the property just over a year ago, lived in one unit for the year obligation and renova...
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One of my earlier forum discussions addressed the issue of excess bids in Alabama tax sales. I will not duplicate that information here.A redeeming owner must pay the following charges:Taxes due at time of auction, pl...
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Hi allI have listed for sale over 150 short sales, and closed about 80% of them. After years of selling my hard fought listing to private investors all over the world I saw the light and became a investor myself. My...
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May be a RE attorney in FL can comment on this. I have a REO property currently under contract with Fannie Mae in the City of Hallandale, FL with a number of violations fined at $350 per day and after a number of ...
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If a house is foreclosure and owner is upside down can I offer a short sale to bank?
House is worth around 260k to 280k fixed up. It is in need of repair 15 to 20k. What would be a reasonable offer? I would like to wh...
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BP friendsMy rental ppty is in Houston, TX ... lease expired 12/31/2020. The tenant requested to stay on due to Covid ... all the time not paying rent since 1/1/21. Tenant passed away in February and the wife ( who’s ...