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Thinking about using my current residence as my first rental - I could cash flow roughly 700 a month. But the question is, should I sell it (I have 100k in equity in it) and buy rental properties with the profit inste...
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Hi everyone! I'm a newbie investor living on the west coast but starting with my first investment for STR/AirBnB in upstate. It's a market I know very well and have a growing network via my boyfriend's first property ...
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Hello all,I'm looking for interesting ways to pay yourself while building a significant cushion of cash reserves for each property. How do you generally execute this? Do you build up a pot of cash reserves and only th...
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Recently purchased my first rental property (basically turn key) two months ago with cash. The property is around $90k. Now I would like to refinance this property to get some cash out. Called around for a couple quot...
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HI! So I purchased my first property, a 4 unit building in the west suburbs of Illinois, this summer. I was initially quoted $1750 per year for insurance coverage from a local company. Then the inspector comes out an...
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Trying to calculate Cap rate for the primary residence I hold that I am trying to convert to a rental property.Here are the numbers:Original purchase price: $400KCurrent value: $600KCurrent loan amount: $300KPlanning ...
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Hello, I was recently watching one of BP's videos on the BRRRR strategy and had a question about one specific aspect of this strategy.How is it that a property produces income and cash flow during the acquisition face...
Making a $300,000 profit from ONE rental?! Imagine how quickly you could reach financial freedom by raking in this amount of profit and reinvesting it into your real estate portfolio. There’s an investing strategy tha...
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Hi BP Community,I'm relatively new and I have a (what I believe should be) basic question: In calculating returns, should one include closing costs as cost basis when estimating cash-on-cash return and why / why not? ...
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I’m making an offer on a MF and my realtor included my pre-approval amount with my offer. I offered $25,000 less than the asking price as there’s no comps anywhere near the asking price. Granted this building is much ...