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Here's my situation, My name is Grant Hamlin and I am 21 years old. Right now I am attending college in Oregon and am pursuing a Business Degree. I am 2 years in and am now applying for Oregon State Universities Busin...
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A recent post on BiggerPockets indicated the imposition of a new $500 per day fine in California for using potable water for ANYTHING but regular in-house use. No one at all commented on this. This is a serious statem...
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Recently, I read "Nomadland" about people who are poor or living on minimal social security and trying to get by. Some of my relatives have problems paying for housing and they don't understand how to navigate the sys...
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I have a few rentals and am just getting started with this as a full time gig. So I'm very green in this space of operation. I keep running into the same issue of tenants moving out without giving proper 30 day notice...
With stock investing I can spend a few minutes a month looking at stock prices and entering a buy or sell order in my brokerage account and earn 8% annually on average. To earn the same return with real estate, I woul...
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I am a newbie RE investor (currently getting approved for a HELOC to fund my first purchase). I read several post that some people recommend having a CPA before out while other say you can wait until you have a few pr...
I listed a flip in April 2018 at a price even with the surrounding neighborhood $224k ($80/sf) in my market. I’ve had 54 showings and not a single offer. I’ve dropped the price $5k/month and I’m getting concerned beca...
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Seems like wholesalers are pretty much unlicensed brokers. Whats the difference? A broker is the middleman, is that not what a wholesaler is?
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If you have cash, should you use it or is it better to use leverage if you can? So far, I've almost exclusively used cash to build our small portfolio. My goal for the year was to fully replace my current after tax ...
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BiggerPockets for a long time was a great place where investors could meet and exchange information and work together. Over the past year I have noticed a trend of a lot more newbies coming in just looking for informa...