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I attended a local REI meetup last night and the guest speaker was an auctioneer with 37 years of experience in RE investing. He was selling a strategy of buying properties on cheap because they were good for nothing ...
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There are SOME downsides to being a "young buck" in the real estate game. Being a 23 year old I find it very difficult to aquire any funding for rehabs or any type of deal for that matter. I have no property for col...
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Hello from Alabama. I'm just curious if anyone else has ever run into a situation where you bought a tax lien property but it was full of the previous owners possessions, although in this case the house has been vacan...
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As one of our initial investments, we want to buy a vacation home (probably a condo, maybe a house) in Galveston, Texas. We live a couple hours away so could theoretically use this to vacation ouselves when it's not r...
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Drove up to Torrington over the weekend and noticed a lot of brick commercial buildings with boarded windows. A lot of vacancies? What are the big employers around there?
Also, which are the best neighborhoods for mu...
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Hey BP Fam!
I've been gearing up for the last 6 months and am ready to pull the trigger on my first deal (a Hurricane Ida gutted SFH as a flip). But I am always lining up my next moves and am inspired when I hear pod...
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Hi everyone, Newbie to STR here. So I narrowed down my market already and am starting to go to open houses. When you go to open houses, how do you decide if it's the right house for STR (after the numbers make sense)?...
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What is the general rule on buying investment STR property if you cant normally absorb the mortgage payment forever? I have enough set aside that i could go a little over a year with no rental income. But is it normal...
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How do you all determine whether a property will rent?I am currently analyzing many different markets and do not have a specific one set for myself. I am looking at comparable rental rates and purchase prices in each ...
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First off, I'm a newbie at this, and this is my first post. I've enjoyed reading a lot on this site, and I'm learning a ton. My wife and I own a single family home in a suburb of Nashville, TN. We've been toying ar...