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Greetings,
I'm new to real estate and I found my first deal on a duplex in the Houston Texas area. I was going to house hack using a VA loan. I visited the property and made a strong offer. A few days later my realt...
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Hi Everyone!I’m relatively new in my STR/MTR journey (but have extensive LTR property management and investing experience). For anyone who is in the STR industry, what would you say is your biggest obstacle to success...
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A couple quick questions that hopefully someone has some experience with. I am looking at moving into a self directed IRA to purchase additional rental properties. Usually depreciation is one of the most valuable ta...
(No replies in the Landlord/Tenant forum. Trying here instead.)Hi BP Community,Have a question regarding creating an LLC (or other form of business) to "manage" my rental unit (currently just one, may be 2 in the near...
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Preamble: We don't announce that we are the owners, we don't hide it, but it never comes up. We have a logo and a company name for all our properties, we look like a business. We sign the owner line on the lease, b...
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I have a tenant who moved into my rental in California in Feb this year. They've lived in the home for 7 months and have made maintenance requests every single month. They installed bidets without my permission and cr...
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We've rented from the same property management company since 2006, and were in our last unit for 7 years. Smoking was not prohibited, in fact when we specifically asked if there were smoking/non-smoking units, we wer...
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I am curious, if you use a self directed IRA in a BRRR strategy, when you refinance the house, can you take some of the proceeds out as cash; or, does it all have to stay in the IRA?
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Hello all,
I purchased a duplex this year with my wife at the beginning of April. It is recently renovated has a ground floor unit and an upstairs unit. Currently the entrance way to the upstairs unit has access t...
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Good afternoon,Was looking to potentially join the Jake and Gino Elite Academy, Jake Stenziano and Gino Barbaro. Have heard a lot of good things about these guys. Just wanted to do my due diligence before diving in....