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I’m a college student currently enrolled in drafting and design but I have been seriously debating switching to construction management. I currently have no real construction experience but I noticed CM is more planni...
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I've been back and forth for about a month now on what to do... I'm 31 and rent in Venice, CA; one of the most expensive areas in LA. I'd like to buy and hold and build a portfolio of passive income. How do I do that?...
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I'm looking at doing a 1031 of a property later this year into 3 new properties and have been toying with the idea of instead simply paying the taxes on the proceeds and investing in notes. That got me to thinking ab...
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Can anyone recommend lenders who will allow for getting a mortgage in the name of an LLC for purchasing a mixed use building in Philadelphia. I spoke to 3 lenders today and all insist on me using my own name and trans...
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Hello,I have a question regarding making my first Rental Property investment. Should I buy a Muli-family home that is very high quality and needs nothing done and has potential to convert the attic into another unit. ...
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Back in May I did a cash purchase on a 4 plex that needed a little work. I bought the property with hard money, fixed it with my own money, went to refinance and: it made it all the way to underwriting ...
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Hi BP! I've become more interested in the multi-family space recently after reading Multi-Family Millions by Dave Lindhal and various multi-family related market reports. One question that has come up is around refina...
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Hello fellows, I am in a situation that I need more advice than my uncle Joe.I have a house with my business partner with $180K in equity, if I sell, I will get $115K and some business savings of $50K for a total of $...
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Gosh I'm in a good pickle...I have a vacation rental in an amazing market that I have owned for 10 years and have easily grossed 45k+ a year consecutively and no signs of slow down. I have about 170k in it and only o...
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How do you guys scope out a neighborhood to know whether it's safe/good or not? I know it's tough to know if a neighborhood is good just by visiting for a few minutes and then leaving.
If you're not from the area, w...