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Hi everyone,
I spent 2.5 years building what we thought was our forever home in the Bay Area. We did things that would not make sense if I were building it as an investment property. Due to some life changes, we are ...
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Honestly, both of these terms I am not completely comfortable with. I "lord"over no land and I feel uncomfortable when I tell people that I am a real estate investor.
I think the term landlord needs a change. It p...
I'm a 19-year-old college student in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I recently talked to a doctor who is aspiring to live in Manhattan, New York about real estate.When I asked him about how I wanted to start investing in r...
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We had a commercial property listed for sale or rent at 809 Main St Hopkins, MN.I showed it to Phillip (Blain) Bundy, he liked it and said that he wanted to purchase it on rent to own option and asked me to reduce ren...
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Hi all,Thought it was about time I officially introduced myself. Been lurking the forums for a while, but the time has come to break the ice and take the plunge. Seems like a good place here with lots of like-minded f...
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Hi guysI am planning to buy my first property soon. I am thinking a duplex. Maybe with tenants already in place. I am feeling overwhelmed and have many questions. But at this point I am going to reduce it to 2 questio...
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Like many investors, I wake up every morning with several emails about potential properties to buy. I then scour through these listings as a morning ritual. This morning I came across an interesting fourplex and did ...
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Hello everyone! My name is Nick Parenti and I am an aspiring real estate investor currently located in Boston, MA. I've been reading, researching, and listening to Bigger Pockets podcasts for the past several months a...
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I recently bought a foreclosure house. It is on a narrow lot with a garage on it. While the house was vacant the neighbor came and dug up the leach fields for the house I just bought. He told me it was to detour peopl...
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This is such a disaster....So I am trying to get a HELOC with WF... Their UW looked at my financial, talked to me, and told me my DTI was 23%... My own cal showed 30% ish, but I am OK with 23%...Credit approval, condi...