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Hi BiggerPockets community! First time posting! Looking for some advice and guidance. My wife and I live in San Francisco (great city but incredibly expensive). My wife wants to purchase a home in a SF neighborhoo...
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I'm a newbie, and for my first investment I'm gearing towards an out of State STR, where I can also use as a vacation home and depending where I'm at in my life, retire there. Is an STR a bad idea as a first investmen...
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First flip & the death of a partnership: Metro Orlando
First flip in Metro Orlando with photos! For my purposes, I define Metro Orlando as everything within a 1-hr commute to downtown Orlando. I use this definiti...
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It was a year ago that I closed on my first flip. The night before I closed, I almost walked out on a $4,900 deposit because I got scared. Thankfully, my step father was good enough to walk through with me and ca...
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I figured I would share a personal victory here. @Bryan Hancock and myself have been ramping up our project volume over the last four years and this is turning out to be a banner year. So much so that I was able to ...
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Here's the full story (skip to bottom for TLDR):I do not have an attorney for this case. If you know of one that won't break the bank and can be ready by December 2, please let me know below, I know it's last minute. ...
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Need advice. I received an offer on my primary residence. The buyer is asking that I carry 10% ($69k) for 5 years at 5%. The offer is a "lowball" offer and we both know that a more realistic sales price is $750k. (He ...
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So I don't really understand the whole Refi and HELOC situation... I have a few questions.What are interest rates usually like compared to traditional residential mortgages?What is the difference between refi and helo...
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Hey BP folks after much research, books and countless hours listening to the BiggerPockets Podcast.... I have decided that it's time to take some action. My goal is to house hack and buy a multi-plex closer to work s...
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I pretty regularly circle back and review my figures for prior deals to see if there are any tweaks I can make to improve the accuracy of my forecasted investment performance.I went back to the figures I’d prepared to...