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I am new at being a landlord
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Does anyone have experience with HELOCS and the desktop valuation? We have one and they did this to create a value, but I want more money available on the line, so if I wait for my property to appreciate more, can I a...
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Hi, new to real estate, been enjoying reading you guys's posts. As I'm browsing the forum, I see a lot of people who seem to have built custom web scraper software to find and analyze deals, but I was wondering if the...
Hi guys! Looking to start investing in real estate in my home country Sweden. Don’t know if/how much the prices has dropped over in the US but here we’ve seen pretty dramatic price drops. I will begin military service...
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I went 'driving for dollars' yesterday and collected some addresses of properties I was interested in. Now the question: how do I find the owners and their contact information?Off topic, driving for dollars is rather ...
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I want to thank the community of BP for all the solid information that has been pouring out of the site this year. The Podcasts are so valuable! I have been investing in SFH's for a few years...but my passion to pursu...
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"I like HELOCs because it doesn't change the interest rate on the property. A regular home equity loan is usually where you refinance and there's a change in the interest rate."
What's a higher profit mainly please &...
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Authorities always encourage everyone to change the smoke detector batteries at the beginning of the new year. I was wondering what others do about this. Do you just hope the tenant does it or do you provide it as p...
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Hi,
I'm trying to estimate how much the management fee and regular maintenance (snow plowing landscaping ) for a small shopping center in New Jersey about 15-20 retail stores so we can get to the real NOI with our ow...
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I have a few properties on auction.com that I am thinking about bidding on. I have dealt with foreclosure sheriff sales in the past. When dealing with the sheriff sales, all you had to pay was the winning bid plus aro...