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After a year of vague forum posts, let's get personal.My wife and I have 100K. No debt. We rent a townhouse, at $1,700 a month in Orange County, California. Currently we make a combined $160k.Our end goal is to have r...
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Aloha BP! So I finally closed on my first rental property on Friday, December 22 after nearly 15 months of educating myself with content from books, YouTube videos and podcasts. The property is a small multi-family...
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Hi everyone I need some help and your opinion on this. Please educate me and leave any suggestion or comment for me. if you think any section or step is useless please tell me. and if you think I need more detail in a...
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I graduate from college on May 2nd this year with a degree in finance from Michigan Tech. 3 weeks later I started my first job as a program manager for an engineering company in the maritime industry. 3 weeks after th...
Is it just me or everyone playing it safe? Recently I’ve been catch a ton of flack on this forum for suggesting things like:1) Maximizing leverage while carrying hefty reserves.2) Buying for appreciation in western ma...
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I'm at a point I'm sure many other new investors in BP are at where significant time self educating has been spent, but are struggling with the lack of experience or network to make some of the strategies and guidelin...
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Below is the email that we just sent out to our tenants. Keep in mind, most people don't pay rent just because they fear eviction...Most people pay their rent because they are honest and they honor their contracts. Yo...
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Here is what I think I know a Lease Option is so far; looking for advice on what I have wrong, if not the entire thing:
Say a man is selling a $165,000 home for the mortgage balance of $150,000 to avoid foreclosure. ...
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I was in the process of talking to different folks to build my team prior to seriously considering a off-market 6 million deal in Fortworth/Arlington Texas area.
I called this tax attorney, who scared the heck out of...
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I always wanted to do a "deal diary" and now I have the chance to do one! This will be my 13th property acquisition and so I'm hoping to make it lucky number 13!A 3-bedroom, 1.5 bathroom 1,054 square foot townhouse c...