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Do any of you rent instead of own (by choice) and use that free capital to invest in real estate instead (i.e. Flips etc)?
When buying a home you have a lot of additional costs:
Down payment
Mortgage payments
Prop...
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My First Two Years as an Owner-Occupied Multifamily Property Landlord in NYC
By @Mrahman2008
In March 2015, I bought a 2-family home in the Morris Park section of the Bronx, NYC. I was excited beyond words. I was ab...
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Are there laws or rules against a tenant's over-extended stay?one of the tenants just got married. of course before he signed the lease he assured she would come here and he would go there.and of course, it's just bee...
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question?I'm formulating the idea of passive partnerships for essentially the BRRR method, generally for my grown children. I know I can use a hard money lender or other financing, financing properties isn't an issue...
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I'm looking at buying an investment SFH property in our town with the primary goal being to have a safe, decent place to offer to one of our young adult children (not legally a dependent.) I'm curious if anyone has ex...
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My fiance and I are in an interesting situation. We have children in two states and recently purchased our first home together in Minnesota. Our idea was to rehab the home, which we have, and short-term rent it, whic...
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Hi all! I purchased a duplex in Chicago and inherited the tenant from hell. She is running a daycare out of the unit, she has a cat and a dog, her girlfriend clearly lives there with her, she puts her garbage on the b...
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I'm not typically one to write posts, but wanted to talk about my experience with the Subto mentorship with Pace Morby. I had already joined two other programs that didn't really work out the way I had hoped, so I was...
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Hi everyone my name is Jeff and I am new to the site. I am a father of 5 beautiful kids and because of them I started looking into investing in real estate. I choose real estate to help pay for my children's educatio...
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I appreciate any/ all feedback from the community.I am a 46 year old married man with 2 children. I currently own a business, and one SFR property.I am strategizing my 2nd real estate investment property ( I have en...