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Hi there! I'm new to BiggerPockets and I'm sure glad I found you guys. I'm Amelia. I'm almost 21 and real estate investment has been on my mind for years, since someone explained to me the concept of OPM.
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Hello Bay Area house hackers,
Hope you're doing well. My wife and I currently own a SFH in Sunset, San Francisco. We've been reading up on house hacking and have been considering selling our SFH and buy a duplex / t...
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There was a really great BP podcast a while back where they interviewed an investor who had her renters trained so she wasn’t stuck unclogging toilets and things like that. I can’t remember which podcast that was, but...
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I wanted to introduce myself and try and connect with some of the other motivated and like minded people here on BP. My name is Joe Odell and I live in the middle of nowhere North Platte, Nebraska, population 26k. Sma...
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Hello Friends!I am very interesting in purchasing a small cabin up in Big Bear. I would like to use it personally only a couple times a year and rent it out as a vacation rental the rest of the year. I would like to...
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Lots of people have asked me how to start doing a "Rental Arbitrage" in STR (short term rentals - Airbnb is most popular but VRBO is another way).Rental arbitrage is you as the investor rents a home and becomes the te...
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I used to buy turnkey rentals and it seems like the trend in 2013 Memphis, 2014 Atlanta, 2017 Indianapolis, 2018 Ohio ? What do you think the next secondary market that all the out of state buyers go to next?
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Hey, I’m considering buying a specific property that is being run currently as an STR. The Airbnb and VRBO listings have dozens of 5-star reviews and very high ratings. As part of my offer, I requested that they trans...
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Hey longtime STR investors, I’m in the planning stages of turning a property I own into a STR. As I’ve analyzed other listings around me they all appear to have similar capacity (1-2 beds, 1-2 baths) as my own. Also, ...