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First post!
I really hope I haven't missed a discussion on this, I've tried doing a search on it here, and it mostly leads to discussions about how inaccurate Zillow is. :) Be that as it may, I am interested in usi...
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Residing in the San Francisco Bay Area, I am currently exploring the prospect of acquiring a long-term single-family home (SFH) rental property in California or a location within convenient driving distance of the Bay...
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I have spent the past 6 months or so educating myself on REI as much as possible primarily here on BP by listening to countless podcasts, posting tons on the forums, analyzing hypothetical deals, networking with ot...
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I want to run background & credit checks on potential tenants, and I'm trying to choose between Transunion's SmartMove vs. Cozy's Tenant Screening.I expect many here are partial to SM as they appear to have been a...
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Every article you read about real estate investing trends makes some mention to emerging technology and its potential impact for REI. So my question for the BP community is this. If there was ONE app every real esta...
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Rehab newbie here. We started demo on one unit in our new fourplex today. The kitchen alone had 4 different types of cabinets, 2 mismatched counters (that were connected) and once we tore up the first layer of floorin...
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Here is a general post to the group, which I'm sure will solicit a variety of responses :)
If you had $1m to invest in either SFH or Syndications, what would you choose and why? I ask because I don't see a lot of hig...
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Hey everyone, I accomplished my goal of getting my first rental property under contract by the end of 2017 and I close on this property soon. I have been calculating the best way to grow my portfolio, but I am curious...