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I've been interested in real estate for over a year. In that time I have read God knows how many books. I have "partnered" with a friend who has hard money connections. I've been going through the pre-foreclosures f...
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For those of you that buy and hold in college towns do you see this fall as...A. The same old housing market, all the students will be back. Sunshine and rainbows for everyoneB. Buying opportunity. This is the Thursda...
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I’m renting out my home and had a IG influencer apply. She makes great money 4 times what rent is a month. And her W-2 reflects that. She does have one account in collections but as second position. ( was a co-signer ...
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Hi BP-ers!I'm a rather new real estate investor in the Denver area and listened to the recent podcast where Paul Thompson (episode 283). This episode got me pumped up to start implementing Paul's "farming" method. As ...
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Attending the 3 day Multifamily Mindset seminar. The coaches and speaker are very knowledgeable but, then you get hit up for $40,000.00 for the mentorship program. Is this needed or even worth to get my foot in the do...
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So historically I've been terrible at keeping these sort of deal diaries, but I'm hoping the BP community will help keep me honest...and updating. Back on February 22 I closed on my first rental property since joining...
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The goal of this discussion is not to push any negativity among private lending operations that have started over the past few years. In fact, "mine is one of them". What we want to do is identify and explain how quic...