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HI BP, I was at a Financial College meeting with a man I've met twice. Everything was about college, until he asked, "Do you want to go to college?" I answered, saying that I knew it was a terrible investment that Im ...
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Hello Wonderful Bigger Pockets Community!
I have been lurking around BiggerPockets for a decent amount of time now. I was fortunate it enough to sell a successful business late last year and after discovering...
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part of the appeal for going into real estate investing / landlording is to create passive income. to make enough in order to make it matter, i will need to possibly have 20 properties at some point. It seems to me ...
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I own several rental properties all single family homes and considering another. However, I want to expand my real estate experience by trying a flip. My strategy is to purchase a foreclosure at our County Court Hou...
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We have an excellent legal immigration policy which millions of people have used to move to this cou...
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I am curious about the buy and hold markets in other cities in the US. I know there are MANY variables to this information, but let's attempt to keep it general for the sake of simplicity. In my town (Boise, ID) you c...
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Hello Bigger Pockets Real Estate Aficionados... Got a nice juicy one for you here... Hoping someone with better knowledge/experience than me will be able to help out and advise...
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We just rece...
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Who is buying and selling with owner/seller financing? How do you do it with the Dodd Frank act? I still don't quite understand that law.
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When screening tenants, in addition to running a credit report, checking landlord references, and checking bad tenant databases I also try to check the applicant's social media accounts. Some people have their account...
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I just heard on the news that real estate prices are dropping like crazy in Puerto Rico due to the state of the local economy. Wondering if that's a good opportunity to start investing there. Anyone on BP currently in...