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Hello BiggerPockets!My parents have worked hard throughout their lives to put their kids through school and pay down the mortgageby the end of this year they will have finally paid off the house and are hoping to reti...
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I just started diligencing a 200+ unit storage facility on the Nebraska / Iowa border. It's a fascinating rental model --> some wear & tear advantages since no live-in tenants compared to MFUs, but also some mg...
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I have a unit available May 1st. I have shown it to twenty parties. I received two applications. First party would be a great tenant but did not make enough money, had very low combined income, past on them.
Second a...
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If my single-member LLC bought a property in 2014, but was not placed up for rental until 2015; so there is no income or expenses (other than capitalized expenses). Do I need to add the property on my Schedule E? It...
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I found a house in the Youngstown, OH area - one of the better parts of town for $9k. The home needs about $10k in work and the comps in the neighborhood range from $33,300 to $64,900.
If I pay cash for the home and ...
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Hello together,I am really new to the real estate game and even though I listened to hours of podcasts, watchedm many videos and webinars and read a lot of books in the last two month... I often have difficulty act to...
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Alrighty, I'm in a bit of a pickle folks. I went under contract for my first Duplex yesterday, with the intentions to house hack. We can get into the numbers further into the post if anyone's interested, but the reaso...
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Okay, this is going to be quite a long overdue success story, as I should have posted it months ago, but I was recently reminded of wanting to do it when I re-read @Mehran Kamari's post about his success story fro...
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Hello BPs,I thought I should update everyone on my journey. I finally purchased my first investment property in Philadelphia. The costs wasn’t too bad during the process and it went pretty good for my second go around...
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I purchased a fixer upper through a wholesaler in March 2021. After more repairs and expenses than expected, i could not sell the house for a profit. The house would not appraise. So instead, I refinanced, pulled out ...