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At age 42, I will be making my very first investment purchase in Q1 of 2018. After 2 years of saving, countless audio books, dozens of Bigger Pockets podcasts and others under my belt, I am ready to jump in with both ...
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I'm young and hardly know anything about taxes in real estate. Can anyone refer me to some good tax books, articles, podcast, ect. Thanks
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Hi, my name's Jim. I live in Ventura County, California (about an hour drive north of LA). I'm a complete newbie to the real estate game and currently entrenched in the education phase of investing. I've been a renter...
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Hello BP Team,Earlier this year a colleague of mine opened up my eyes to the power of real estate investing. Due to being a complete novice on the topic; I have spent the last few months reading books, attending webin...
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Huge win today!! Seller agreed to a significant price reduction as part of the repair negotiations on our apartment deal. We are moving forward to the next stage and super excited!
I attribute our success in negotia...
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Just about every REO around here that I want to submit an offer on requires the buyer be pre-approved or pre-qualified by the bank's specific lender if the offer is not cash. I don't want to get pre-approved by count...
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Hello BP users,
I am a relatively new RE investor but have had a rental for a number of years. I really want to get into some fix and flips so am trying to learn all I can about it. I have read a couple books but th...
Currently I just use craigslist and hotpads.com to get an idea of the market rate rent is in an area. What are some other resources or tools that you can use to find out more information?
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Hello BP folks, my name is Charlie Smith and I am currently a contract pilot, cropduster specifically, living in beautiful Pensacola, Florida. I want to start by offering a sincere thank you to the founders and contr...
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Hi everyone, A few months ago I took an online course on Udemy about real estate investing. In this course some guy named @Brandon Turner spent hours and hours talking about biggerpockets.com. I liked the rest of his...