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A little about me before anything else. I'm a Maintenance Supervisor in the property management business in California. I have some construction rehab / estimating experience along with decades of maintaining apartmen...
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If you can pay off the mortgage on your first rental property should you? And is it a viable strategy to then use a HELOC on the (now paid off) rental to buy a second? I ask this because my wife and I dislike debt but...
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There are plenty of opinions out there about staging a home to provide a higher sales price and/or faster sale.
Is this recommended for flips? It seems like the cost is fairly high to stage, thus eating into the f...
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Going to start with the cliche "not trying to brag but..." For real though, this is my portfolio and I get asked what's in it and "how did you do it?" all the time, so I try to every now and then share it with others ...
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Hey there, BPers. First time poster. I've got a townhouse with a tenant in it. While walking through the parking lot of the townhouse complex, he slipped on ice, fell and busted his skull open tot he tune of $125k in ...
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Preparing Loan Requests That Get Funded Lenders are driven by many factors; one of them is self-preservation. Simply put, no lender wants to make a deal that goes “upside down” Therefore, a would-be borrower, wants to...
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Hi guys just curious where you buy your vanities and cabinets? We are looking for medium quality stuff for our reno project, but easy returns and of course value is everything. Any suggestions are appreciated!@Noell...
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I’ve been working on creating an easy to read quarterly report for the city of Madison, Wi. I tried one out for Q2, but revamped it for the end of year update. At some point I may include other markets, such as Milwau...
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So after a great discussion with Ryan Webber (who is THE MAN btw, THANKS RYAN!!!), I've picked my basic areas of town that I'm going to target. Now I'm going to do some research on my own, but I also plan on utilizing...
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I am finding that you get more for your money in Fort Wayne, South Bend, Goshen, etc. Why are more people not investing in these smaller cities?I am keeping an eye out for a live in duplex in all of the cities of Indi...