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I am looking to invest in Peoria, Bloomington, or Decatur IL. how has been your experience with investing in these areas? can you achieve the BRRRR method and follow the 1% rule?
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Hello BP!
Here's a quick question for you:
If a city you were planning on investing in showed a decline in population growth since 2010 would you still invest in it?
Thank you BP!
Jorge
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To The Mountains!
Boone is a lovely little college town situated in the Mountains on NC, sporting a population of just under 20,000 people and employing 8.45k people.
Boone's annual population growth rate is sittin...
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Hey BP Fam,I am looking landlord friendly small cities to invest. Here are my criteria:1.Purchase value below 75k2.At least one college3.Diverse economy4.Not high crime5.Growing population 6.Not smaller then 10k peopl...
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Over the years of investing I have started to develop a metric where we look at the ratio of PMs in NARPM compared to the overall population to determine if there is sufficient mass of service providers to enable succ...
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I live in the Pacific Northwest and have been investing in real estate here for years, but am considering retiring in Florida. I have a size-able portfolio that is a mix of commercial and residential. I didn’t acquire...
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Hi all,
I am a brand spanking babies bottom investor. I am looking at my first triplex and need your feedback. I analyzed the job market and population and they are both holding steady where I am looking. My conce...
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Hi everyone, I'm in Los Angeles and I have come to realize after analyzing many deals. Los Angeles is not a cashflow market ... Duh ! But, I'm looking to replace my income and I have a goal of building enough cashflow...
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so based on these recent huge tech layoffs in CA, there's structural job changes that due to Fed Interest Rate, tech company can not longer operating in sustainable fashion in CA, so they have to move operation. Eithe...
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I’m planning on moving to ANY state ANY city and live and start investing. And I want to know what states/cities are best for investing in RE. Thanks 🏗