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Hi BP! My husband and I live in the SF Bay Area where home prices have risen substantially in past years. We want to leverage some of our home equity and use that equity as down payment for our 2nd rental prop. We'...
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Where do gurus come up with these real estate investing tools they use to do all the work an investor would do themselves? I get emails all the time from gurus inviting me to come to some webinar talking about an awes...
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Hey Everyone,There has been some good discussion about Gastonia lately, particularly in this thread started by @Johnny Szeto. While there has been some excellent discussion and some anecdotal evidence shared by @Ty...
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I’d like to start a new kind of real estate brokerage. It would dually represent buyers and sellers and charge a total commission of no more than 0.6%. Instead of depending on buyer agents to drive prospects from hous...
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For the last 15 years I have been answering questions from unknowledgeable wanna be investors who watched a guru on YouTube and now wants to know where to get the earnest money to tie up multi million dollar propertie...
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So I have been watching a bunch of videos and reading things on wholesaling after just finding out about it the other day. From my understanding it requires a lot of work and can be harder than youtubers make it soun...
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Today Joe Biden outlined his $1.9 trillion stimulus plan. Included was a proposal to enact a federal ban on evictions through September of 2021.
Talking recently with our attorney, he felt eviction moratoriums were ...
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Good Morning BP!Summary: How do smart investors hedge against market corrections in the commercial multi-family sector? And should required reserves for a property be factored in to calculations for CoC and/or IRR? Th...
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http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2012/02/23/forecast-austin-job-growth-revs-up.html?ana=lnk
Some highlights:
19,000 new jobs are expected this year after 13,000 last year.
Unemployment rate could drop below 5...
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I am REALLY confused about what to do. My wife and I have grown our flipping business over the past couple of years to doing 10 flips currently.I was just getting ready to quit my job that pays $150,000/year to focus ...