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Here's a question for anyone who works in lending (and a cautionary tale for those just getting into RE.
I own 4 properties, all 4 of them are on my credit report. All 4 are rented out and cash flow positive.
I ha...
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I'm preparing to send my first wave of direct mail in the next couple days (planning to buy the list on Saturday [600/700 or so] and yellow letters on Sunday) and I've sort of been ignoring the idea of doing direct ma...
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From the rise of the iBuyers, Zillow looking to flip houses, and now Amazon partnering with a behemoth brokerage, is this the beginning of the end?https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/amazon-real-estate-giant-look-to-dis...
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Is formal education (particularly RE development graduate certificates) better than hands on/ real world experience? I have done a couple rental properties, flips and wholesale deals and would like to move towards com...
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I recently listened to the audiobook, "Work the System," recommended by @Andy Kaufman at our last meetup, and it gave me some great ideas about setting up more well-defined and documented processes and systems ...
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Hello BiggerPockets!My name is Jeff, and I have recently caught the real estate investing bug. I stumbled across BiggerPockets while researching how best to invest in my retirement, and I never imagined a topic as mun...
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I was looking to see if anyone out there has used the financial services of Loan guys. I just had a lengthy chat with one of there people about all the different products they provide.
I'm also like happy to get rec...
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Hi Everyone,I am a young, aspiring investor and want to purchase my first property within the next year or two. There are a couple of big banks out there that are doing conventional fixed-rate mortgage for as little a...
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Probably an odd question for my first question (great forum, btw), but I couldn't find anything that really addressed my question.One of my rentals is almost completely paneled ( now painted). When I bought it, it had...
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I recently attended the Note Expo conference in Dallas which is annual event which provides me a basic snapshot of the landscape for distressed mortgage debt. Although most of the presentations were more operational i...