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hello amazing BP member!! I have a question I dont know if it applies to rental properties. I recently purchase a second home my first one approximately a year and half ago. I wasnt approved for near as much as my fi...
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What amenities or consumables do you provide guests that sets you apart from the competition and earns you rave reviews?
- Welcome basket?
- Video games and pool table?
- Hot tub?
- Pellet gun, list of creatures, ...
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We currently hold 5 rental properties totaling 15 doors. All properties are in northern Illinois and we have since moved to Arizona. We have been self managing from afar utilizing previous service providers and friend...
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I have expanded my marketing tactics to cold calling property owners to see if they have any interest in selling. One concern is that I could be calling numbers registered under the federal do-not-call list. Does this...
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Trying to check in with Northern Virginia (Arlington, Falls Church, Alexandria, Fairfax, etc) or Washington DC/Montgomery county investors to see if you guys had any recommendations on DC area local banks that will do...
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Hi,I'm a fairly new member to the site, and this is my first time posting, so apologies if this isn't the right section of the forum for this post. This is basically my/our situation.We are four college students who ...
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My tenant would like me to put in new windows. The windows are currently louvered windows (6 inch wide), basically the leakiest possible windows, which was great before air conditioning, but not great now.
Anyhow, te...
Hello,
Some of my pre foreclosure owners are perfect candidates for a short sale, (1st and second notes are about equal to the market value, or are upside down) but they have basically given up on homeownership, and a...
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Good morning BP. I've been considering using a Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) loan to help finance my next investment. As I've looked into it with some caution (after all, EVERYBODY* says "Max out TSP! Don't touch it!"), t...
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I've been kicking around the idea of investing in self storage for a while now and want to pull the trigger on getting my first property. Over the weekend I sent an offer over for a property that I feel has potential...