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Introduction
One of the keys to success in real estate investing is the ability to scale your business efficiently. While using your own cash might seem like a secure approach, alternative financing options like priv...
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Hi folks, looking into either contractor license or architecture license to support further real estate development. Which one has more quantifiable value in general? Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
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Building Strong Relationships: The Key to Property Management Success
In property management, success isn’t just about managing properties—it’s about managing relationships. At the heart of effective property manag...
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This question is for buy and hold investors. My investment plan is to buy the right properties and hold them forever. For me, it's not about quantity and number of deals, but about quality and getting my few propertie...
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Does anyone else here have issues with their personality type holding them back from being a successful RE investor? I am really struggling here and would appreciate any insight.
According to Myers-Briggs, I am an IN...
Does anybody know of a good read to better understand cross-collateralization and blanket mortgages?
I get the basic idea of offering more than one property as collateral for a loan, and have actually done a loan wit...
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Yes, this is an angry kind of post. I don't have much patience or sympathy towards the annual flood of "Terrific End-of-Year Tips to Cut Your Taxes" webinars, podcasts, articles and whatnot. You want a sample of this ...
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I am looking for some advice on how to best structure this STR agreement. My friend and I would like to purchase a vacation home, and it is already a successful STR so we would like to keep that up to offset the expen...
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Hey BiggerPockets!
I was absolutely blown away by the amazing responses, encouragement, and detailed questions from my first BRRRR post, so I figured I would share our journey on a recently completed BRRRR deal.
Bac...
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Three years ago, my husband and I did a 1031 tax exchange for a rental property. The property is still a rental property and will continue to be, at least for the forseeable future, but I would like to put the propert...