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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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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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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/judge_kos_mortgage_to_slap_bank_28ZS1oW8Y58z6gu1AQbWMI
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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 ...
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Texas Real Estate Inventory (or lack thereof)
While most of us have spent the past year thinking about other aspects of life, Texas real estate investors have wondered what the market was going to look like when ever...