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I am looking to purchase a duplex as our first rental property. One of the units is currently rented by an 80 year old woman that has lived there almost 40 years. She's currently paying less than half the market rate...
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Hey BP,I wanted to learn more about the marketing and searching of off market deals. My thought is to print a bunch of those door hangers and go through my desired neighborhood and door knock with a clipboard.Has anyo...
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"A “doom loop” therefore looms for Chicago and many other cities: Commercial leases don’t get renewed, leading to slashed commercial property tax valuations, forcing a higher tax burden on homes, reducing the value of...
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Hi everyone, It's Friday night and I all my adrenaline is zapped. I am about to lose twenty thousand dollars b/c my mortgage contingency expired and my two private money lenders flipped the script on their terms at th...
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Today's market is much different from the market we have seen in the past 3 years
Interest rates were at an all time low for too long. This gave many people the opportunity to buy in at historically low rates.
This...