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(Didn't get much traction on this in the Marketplace, so I thought I'd move it over to the forum!)
Hi all,
This is going out to all real estate investors who have utilized Hard Money in their deals.
In what way ca...
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My wive and I were in Tulum for the second time in about a month's time and love the whole Riviera Maya. So much so that we are thinking about buying an investment condo in a new development that just blew our mind. T...
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Hi, I would like to hear from Non US Citizens investing in the US on how they are going with their investment strategy, what strategies they find are most successful for them with being a remote investor and the hurdl...
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I don't see any recent posts on this, so just wondering what people's takes are on buying investment properties in an urban, suburban or rural area. There was some discussion five years ago, but that was pre-pandemic ...
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I am trying to get started on real estate investing out of the Chicago area. I have be under the impression that using your home address to start a business entity is not the greatest idea. I've read in multiple artic...
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I had an interesting exchange with another local investor that led me to explore some property in the areas immediately surrounding the several high-end universities in our city. Apart from the challenges of owning r...
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Hi BP,Although I’ve only started in real estate investing, I’ve been reading books on tax and legal protections. In protecting my investments, I’ve learned the importance of the first and second defense, home owner’s ...
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Economic Update
(Monday, February 15, 2021)
I was never a big believer in “Herd Immunity” until now. The term “herd immunity” represents a hypothetical threshold of our population that needs immunity to the coron...
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Hey folks. Hoping I can bounce ideas off of this group to figure out what to do with my situation. I purchased a home in August, GA in March 2021 that I rehabbed and was ready to refinance in November 2021. During the...