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My name is Paul Strauss. I'm a fool-time real estate investor- no, that's not a typo :) and founder of The Windy City Round Table in Chicago.
I say "sort of" from Chicago because I actually no longer claim IL as my ...
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I am new to the investing field and my brother is my partner. He currently lives in the Detroit, MI area. This city has of course filed bankruptcy recently and has a lot of not so pretty neighborhoods. However t...
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Hello BP Family!My name is Fernando Angelucci and I am excited to join the community.Here is a little about me and what I want to accomplish:In my lending business, I will be increasing my portfolio to $20M in capital...
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I was wondering how successful wholesalers, particularly in CA, are determining offers on bank owned fixers. The "70% of the repaired value minus repairs" formula seems to be not applicable in my market. The banks re...
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Hi, my name's Elijah and I'm a new investor who has yet to do my first deal. I was born and raised in rural Alberta/Saskatchewan, Canada. I've lived in small towns most of life with populations ranging from 10 people-...
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I keep hearing on the podcast that house flippers always tend to use other lenders, hard money, etc... Even in J Scott's book on Flipping Houses says that they use investors and don't really use their own money.What I...
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Hello and thank you for taking a moment to read my posting,My name is Tony, I'm 28, married, have two kids, live in charlotte, NC, and like many have a desire to achieve success in life. In the middle of 2017 I left t...
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Very seldom have I seen page after page (1, 2, 3, and 4) of listings that have a listing status of Contingent or New. About 10% out of 60 houses under $190,000 in 27616 have an Active status. What is going on? From pu...
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Hello digi-neighbors,
In this economy the top priority of the electorate is job creation. With my previous marketing consultation I found it interesting that when we are the entreprenuers at first opportunity, we ou...
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I recently purchased a Multi-family 4 unit that currently has a new gas boiler. Property managers in my area are telling me to eliminate the boiler and install electric baseboard heat in the units and have the tenants...