Thanks to encouragement and motivation from the community here at Biggerpockets as well as friends and podcasts, I have been taking steps to better my business. I have been making progress in learning how to research ...
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Friends,I'm looking for some insight regarding marketing in this extremely strong seller's market that we're experiencing right now in the Twin Cities. I've been doing direct mail for quite some time. My observations ...
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Morning BPer's,So I recently purchased my first house. I got the house for $78,000 and it appraised for $84,000. After my down payment and everything, my mortgage is about $68,000. My question is, I plan to live in th...
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So I posted here a while back about my shift from transactional real estate (wholesaling with a bit of flipping) to multi-family acquisitions after I realized I had gotten away from what initially attracted me to real...
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I am looking at a property, 69,9002 unit 2 /1.5 rents 725 1/1 over a garage rents for 525.Says units need updating. It would cash flow around 600 a month.At what point is updating both units to expansive. The 2/1 is t...
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In hopes of encouraging our members to complete their profiles, we've launched our Account Completeness graph in your dashboards. If you click the home link in our navigation bar, you'll be taken to the dash, where y...
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http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/110344/what-the-double-dip-recession-will-look-like
Interesting article with great links to other info. What will the nation looklike with a double dip? How many economis...
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Friends,I'm looking for some insight regarding marketing in this extremely strong seller's market that we're experiencing right now in the Twin Cities. I've been doing direct mail for quite some time. My observations ...
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Some good news out this morning with a soft CPI print, much under where consensus was. Capital markets a reacting strongly to this in todays session, expecting a decent move in the 10 year. Still have FED’s Jerome Pow...
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I had a recent experience with a lender that baffled me and wanted to share. I purchased a 40K home that was being used as a college rental. Based on doing prior deals with the seller and his motivation to liquidate...