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Hello everyone,
First, THANK YOU FOR READING THIS. I will introduce my situation after but I am so grateful for this outlet. I have been educating myself on real estate and markets for the past year but I have no con...
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I want to start doing private lending with my own money. The goal is to lend relatively close to my home in Los Angeles. Finally, don't want to put all my (lending) eggs in one basket. Are there opportunities to lend ...
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Hi,I was wondering if I could get some advice on Eminent Domain.I bought my house in Inver Grove in 1998 along 70th street. Dakota county sent notice about possible eminent domain to my family and 3 others. They had...
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Many years ago I took a class in doing lease options. One technique they taught us was the Sandwich lease. Essentially what you do is set up a lease option like any other but then you sublease the property to a tenant...
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1.0 Introduction
Here is my small experience with a Harris County Tax Sale. Harris County is the county containing Houston, Texas. Since I could not find much about the actual process I figured others mig...
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I want to ask the age-old question of whether or not it makes sense for me to get a license to sell real estate in Georgia. As always, I think I know the answer, but thought I'd share specifics of my situation. I ha...
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I was out "driving for dollars" and I come across a nice looking brick multi family in a decent and improving neighborhood. Clearly it is a distressed/vacant property as the mailbox was full, no lights on, empty vaca...
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I have an opportunity to buy, rehab, and flip my first property in Florida. I am extremely new to this. Is there a loan that will include the purchase price and rehab cost? Isn't DCHS or something?
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How do I go about vetting a local hard money lender? I want to be fair and pay the lender for their services, however I want to ensure my assets are protected.
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I want to hear your thoughts on how you calculate the risk of failure for investing in real estate. As someone who has invested in equities my whole life I was trained to look at the WACC value or Beta of risk based o...