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Hello there – I have a question that has had me stumped for some time now. I hope I can get some good feedback. I live in the Tri-Cities in Washington state. And it seems overall as a whole, that Tri-Cities real estat...
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I am looking at rental properties near a college and was curious if this is a good strategy. Has anyone tried implementing this strategy? If so, was it a positive or negative experience? I would most definitely be wor...
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Many investors seem to be looking for rental properties in areas with low property values. This makes sense given that rental returns tend to be much higher. For example, I live in downtown Chicago and found that retu...
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My thoughts:Damage Protection:Goods: The total cash paid by the guest at the time of the booking is less. Makes your property more accessible (at least on the surface).Bad: Has a cost which is not used most of the tim...
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I’m new to investing and I’ve been hearing cash flow is tax free. I can run the numbers for NOI-depreciation and this holds true, but not all of the operating expenses are deductible (or at least maintenance, vacancy ...
We have $100,000 savings in the bank. We found an amazing and unique $500,000 house with 5,000 taxes. We can put 10% down and with closing costs spend about $75,000. We will easily spend the remaining $25,000 in misc ...
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There's something I don't quite understand about turnkey properties. If I buy a SFH from a turnkey company, I know that they've made improvements to the property and the purchase price includes the cost of these impr...
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I’m new here and not sure if this is the correct place to post this. Please feel free to redirect me to a different section of the site if needed.
I’ve recently been thinking of ways to utilize the market downturn b...
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Listed our first STR property last month and started using Guesty for Hosts as my management software to consolidate across platforms. Everything was fine when just using Airbnb (though you could argue against needing...