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The past few weeks, it seems as if the political/off topic discussions have trumped the real estate discussion on this site. I log-in and see that the dashboard is filled with Palin or Obama topics, and then I log ri...
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I recently purchased my second multi-family rental unit and hired a property manager to manage it. (I managed my first rental myself, and still do.)So far, the property manager I hired has acted with more autonomy tha...
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Hi BPers,@Joshua Smith and I both recently bought properties and had to pay off tenants with cash for keys agreements. To me, it seems like one could argue that this is a property expense and could be deducted as an e...
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Hello everyonei am new to real estate and on his forum, i am from Africa Malawi and i want to be a real estate investor how best can i utilise his platform for my country and make it work for me?
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Hi all, Is the only way to figure out where future development planning is occurring is to go to city council meetings? Any one have any tricks/tips on figuring this out before development occurs so that we can try to...
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There is a lot of discussion about what jobs will be lost and created with AI. There is discussion that eventually no jobs will be necessary which is an entirely different discussion. I can think of some obvious cit...
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I have two wholesale deals under contract one with 25k lien and another with 19k mortgage.
They are good deals the numbers work. My question is do I discuss this with my buyer b4 we sign the contract or is this all h...
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I enjoy reading Bigger Pockets and listening to the podcasts. I’m also a bit of numbers geek naturally so I try to break down things to the basic arithmetic most of the time.What I have found is that there is an abund...
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I was reading through the turnkey discussion and wanted to start a separate discussion on turnkey companies.
For those of you who have successfully invested turkey - which company did you invest with?
For those wh...
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Are there any good resources to see current population trends and other real estate related data trends by town or as granular as possible in order to be able to make intelligent projections about real estate investin...