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Hi, my name is Hector and I decided to get into the Real Estate world last year. I live in Lancaster, CA and own a single family home rental. I have been a lurker on these forums and soaked up a lot of knowledge so th...
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Okay so I have a buyer's agent who I work with to view investment properties and to evaluate deals however he lives about 50 miles away and can only get to me to see properties once a week. So I met another agent at ...
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Here’s how that works:Depreciation is the act of slowly deducting the initial expense of an asset against your taxable income. Generally this is over a 27.5 (residential) or 39 (commercial) year time frame. So each ye...
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I'm new on BP and joined after I started listening to Joe Fairless' "Best Real Estate Investing Advice Ever" podcast. It's very motivating to hear other investor's stories. Curenrly I work full time in mental health a...
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Hi everyone! I am a new investor in the Hampton Roads Va area. In January I rehabbed my first property. The job was supposed to take 6 weeks it ended up taking 11 weeks. The intial budget was 73K including the price...
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I've always been interested in real estate but I never had the capital to even think about it until recently. Some of the information I've read seems to indicate that the market is very competitive at this moment. Als...
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Hello fellow BPs! As a new member this is my very first post on the forums; with many more to come I hope, I'd like to say hello!With all that I have been learning about multi-family rentals, I came across AirBnB and ...
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Ok!!! After reading a bunch of inspiring stories on here, my excitement level is through the roof. So I want to throw this out there and see what you all think. Like I have mentioned or you can find in my profile, I a...
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Looking for advice on growing my rental portfolio without crushing my savings account in this market. I have two rentals, both cash flowing and purchased 3 years ago with 25% down and at the record-low interest rates...
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I've decided I'm going to liquidate my holdings (SFH's) in an appreciating market. I should come away with $300K. Would love to get seasoned investors advice on what they would do with the cash. i.e. SFH's package?...