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Hello! My wife and I are both W2 employees. We are carefully looking into starting rental property investing. However, one of our objectives is to reduce the tax burden we face on our W2 income. However, a local real ...
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Investment Info:
Small multi-family (2-4 units) other investment in Johnston.
Cash invested: $40,000
I currently own a 2 family unit, I am living in the upstairs unit and renovating the downstairs unit. ...
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Hello BP,first off all I have to say it was a great thing to find bigger pockets as it has really helped me alot to collect alot of information about REI in the US. My name is Sascha and I am 32 years old from Frankfu...
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Man, today has been frustrating. I'm supposed to close on the purchase of a duplex in Aurora, Colorado this Friday, but my lender dropped a bombshell on me today. I'm fully approved, but they are saying the red tape t...
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Reposting this here because I got no love in the Starting Out forum!By way of brief introduction - my name is Justin and I'm an out-of-state real estate investor, currently focusing on single-family and small multi-fa...
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Hey everyone I am wanting to transition my rentals over to a Property Management company. The problem is I am having difficult locating them.
The way I have been searching is opening up google maps, entering in my zi...
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Hey all new to the Forum. I just started in single family real estate investing with a couple small houses.
The next i want to purchase is a small 1 bedroom condo for my father.
I have some questions about this as ...
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I have searched the forum and the net looking for an authoritative source on interpretations and applications of the EPA RRP Rule.
If anyone is able to refer me to an authority source I would appreciate it.
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Anyone see this?Oakland bans criminal background checks on potential tenantshttps://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-21/oakland-bans-criminal-background-checks-on-potential-tenants1. Is this fair to the law-ab...
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A few years ago if a tenant owed you rent or damaged your property you could enter the premises and “hold” certain items. It’s an old law I believe but was still could be used. It’s so old you couldn’t take their goat...