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Hi all,Long story short, (see previous post for long story) I bought a giant headache as my first property and am waaayyy over budget, but good ol’ LA real estate has amazingly enough exceeded my deficit. I still have...
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Good evening BP community, hope all is well. I have spent the past few months learning about real estate investing, I have listened to many podcasts and read quite a few books on buy and hold investing. I feel as tho ...
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Recently came across two articles in the local newspaper of one of my focus markets about 2 separate student housing portfolio sales...the first in 2018 of 70 houses which sold for 30M and another one this year of 45 ...
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If you are screening tenants and you figure that the tenant might be have a difficult life situation, would you put that into consideration when choosing if the financial side of the screening passes?
On a hunch a...
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I did a search and the existing Credit Score building threads are from before the last few batches of rule changes so I thought I would start a new one. So all those who understand credit scores:
Starting from scrat...
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Hi all,Currently stationed at JBLM and I've come across a triplex off market that I am very interested in. The Tacoma market is one of the hottest in the country and I have been outbid on every offer I've made by othe...
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If I owned a house and wanted to show proof that someone else is paying the mortgage on the house. Would a Lease Option be the best bet?, you know apart from maybe a bank statement. Because I have a $190K house on my ...
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Turning 20 in 2 months, wanting to get into real state. I live in Denver and the prices for the houses here are sky high. So should I invest out of state as my 1st rental property? What strategy would you recommend.
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Hi,I’m looking for a Duplex or a Triplex in LA as my first investment. I would live in one of the apartments and then rent out the other one(s). How does one go about it? What would a “good” deal look like? Is it even...
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I've been reading these forums for a few weeks now and I'm starting to get a feel for things but I'm very new to all this so please forgive my ignorance.
Hopefully someone will be kind enough to point me in the right...