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The Austin area real estate market in June 2020 showed little regard overall for the COVID-19 situation locally. According to the Austin Board of REALTORS (ABoR), home sales were up by 9.3% in the metro area compared ...
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Hello everyone!Thank you for reading my post and giving any advice. I am looking for my first home to purchase and see how house-hacking is a great option. I am looking to move out around November or December but am l...
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The FED announced today it will change its thinking when it come to inflation. They will be looking to “average” 2% inflation rather than force it by raising and lowering rates. They’ll stop relaying so heavily on une...
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Denver Investors - I saw a graph posted yesterday on LinkedIn from a local Denver Realtor that shows rents starting to decline and I'm curious if you are seeing that with your own properties. Also curious if that is t...
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Hi everyone! I have been trying to run my own estimates on what houses cost around the area where I am trying to invest. However, Zillow in texas has discrete prices and it won’t show me what the houses were sold as. ...
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Hey guys and girls,So when using rental property calculators what % do use for the expenses and growth monthly?I’ve been using 5% vacancy 10% repair costs 5% CapEx 10% management feesI assume all utilities will be han...
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Should I sell my property to a realtor who is currently managing my property as AIRBNB or sell it the conventional way with a realtor?
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Hey guys, what's your strategy on getting smart on different markets? What metrics to do you use to compare one market to the next, and what resources do you use to learn market news? All advice I hear is to specify a...
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The 2022 Austin real estate market was a year of extreme contrasts. The year began with scenes like that below, where there were multiple buyers lined up (often literally) for extremely limited housing inventory:
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Just looking to compare my process to others to see if anyone else is as Lame or Awesome as me....lol. And see if there are any tips and tricks when looking for out-of-state investments. So here is my process. 1- Open...