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Hi everybody! Thanks for checking out my intro post!My name is Alex and I'm looking to quit working my job in retail sales and get into REI as soon as possible. First of all, I live in Santa Barbara, California. I'm n...
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Hi everyone, my name is Avis Durant from Naperville, IL. I am new to real estate and looking for as much knowledge as I can possibly soak up. So far BP has been an excellent resource for all things real estate relat...
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Hello All,I've been a wholesaler for almost a year now. Previously I was doing single family and some smaller multifamily purchases. Now I have pivoted into doing larger deals such as 20+ property portfolios, large ap...
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Hey guys,I've been searching around and haven't quite found an answer to this specific question: How can I find the price ratios between distressed and retail sales in my potential farm area (one zip code for now) wit...
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Hi guys!My name is Alex and I am completely new to real estate, well sorta. I have always loved real estate. As a teenager in a small town on Vancouver Island I used to browse the MLS and look at multi million dollar ...
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Getting pretty sick and tired and annoyed with the top contributors in forums just posting random little answers has nothing to do with answering the posted question or helpful. They do it just to get more activity po...
Based on your experience, what are the best cities to invest in the next couple of years?The city i live in (los angeles) is overpriced and most of investments i've seen lately do not make any sense; i'm therefore com...
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Hi!I'm a software/data engineer with a background in finance and business development. I started looking into real estate investing a few months ago and encountered some hurdles with getting accurate and local data al...
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Any recommendations for an investor friendly real estate agent in Stockton, California?