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A financial advisor has told me about using a Single Premium Immediate Annuity (SPIA) as a vehicle to lower my capital gains with the sale of my rental property. It is to be setup as a structured allotment sale over ...
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hi All, I am not professional RE investors, so I hope that you can give me some advice for my situation.We bought our primary home in 2002 for $300K, the mortgage plus taxes and insurance is $2600/mon. The house shoul...
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In David Greene's book "Long Distance Real Estate Investing" (which is awesome, btw) I saw an argument that I didn't understand fully, which is basically "you should overpay on your mortgages to refinance them faster ...
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Hey guys, I need some help. I bought a house at an auction. There was not access allowed to view the property prior to bidding. After I won the auction, I was walking around the house to get some more ideas on what to...
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Okay BP, help a confused rookie out... I'll give some quick background on my property and what I'm trying to do. In 2017 I purchased a home sold as a duplex for a total of $207k including about $23k of 203k funds to m...
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Hi all! Lately I've been contemplating this question and finally figured I should toss it out to the BP community. I'm curious how everyone decides how much of their money allocated for "investing" is put toward real ...
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Hello! If there is an underground oil tank, is the seller legally responsible to remove it before the buyer acquires the property? Or can it be negotiated within the contract? This property is in Connecticut. Thank you!
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First time homebuyer and new to the real estate investing world. Thanks for all your advice in advance!
I am a newly graduated dentist looking to house hack in the area just west of Denver proper. I am currently look...
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This has now happened 3 times in my primary residence.
I find a puddle on my basement floor, look up and a copper pipe is dripping very slowly from the middle of a length of pipe, its not at a joint, and the...
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Hi there,My name is Ben Stevenson, I am a 22 y/o electrical engineering tech outside of the GTA. My significant other and I attempted to purchase our first home/investment property in April but couldn't conquer the st...