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I live in Illinois where it is not airbnb friendly. I am thinking of getting STR in Indiana within 1 hr driving distance from Illinois. I am looking for a property in a good but relatively affordable neighborhoods lik...
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Helllo fellow BP members!I'm looking to invest in Philly universities area and potentially Buffalo, NY however, my wife and I are currently looking to buy a home as our personal residence. Should we wait until we have...
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There's lots of discussions in these forums of the pros and cons (mostly cons) of national STR/vacation rental property management companies like Evolve, Vacasa, etc. I've had good experience with a local property man...
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Hello everyone!
This is my second post. Brand new investor here looking to purchase my first property soon.
Ignoring the fix & flip side of things, and just talking about buying homes and renting them out, is t...
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Hey Everybody,
I'm looking to buy a single lot to build a single family house in NJ, at the RIGHT price. The problem I find is that all the land advertised on Zillow or Realtor.com is either not worth it or o...
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My question is: With the relatively small amount of disposable income I have, is it better to separate some of that off to make extra payments to the house mortgages to pay them off sooner, or should I just let the mo...
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That is buying cash without putting a mortgage/refinancing it later on. Do you regret not leveraging?
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I understand that these type of deals are hard to come by, but happens when you come across not one but two great deals one being a business and the other being a complex which is the main stay of what we do especiall...
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong? A Cautionary Tale for Newbies and Not-So-NewbiesThis post is intended to share some observations gained from more than a decade as a real estate investor, and to offer some words of cauti...