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I was curious about previous real estate cycles and came across this short article: "How to Use Real Estate Trends to Predict the Next Housing Bubble", by Ted Nicolais (2014).http://www.dce.harvard.edu/professional/bl...
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Hey there BP,So I'm looking around at expanding my portfolio into some out of state rentals, mostly because my home market is really hot right now and pricing is through the roof, depressing cap rates to unacceptable ...
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Hi All,
I want to get into the multi family business.
I'm an engineer on a W2 income located in San Diego.
What advice can you give me to get started besides networking and reading a lot?
Thanks,
Guy
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Hi everyone, I’ve spent the last year really trying to understand the world of commercial real estate investing, and I now have some capital to invest. The only thing holding me back at this point is deciding what typ...
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Hey everyone!My name is Chris and I'm so glad that I have the opportunity to join such a vibrant and helpful community. My girlfriend and I are both fully employed and are looking to start our journey for real estate ...
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My property manager informed me that a tenant with late rent wants to catch up on rent with proceeds from an approved FHA home loan. My immediate reaction was "B***S***, that's not possible". So I had the property m...
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Hello BP!Got a question for San Jose / Bay area people. What is your general thoughts on Burbank San Jose area?It's seems to me like an old run-down area about to gentrify. Close to Apple, close to new Google campus, ...
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Hi everyone. This is just a question I have that I am hoping to spur some colorful discussion on. I wasn't sure where to stick this post, so into the general pot it goes! I was reading a book recently on economic hist...
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So. Trying to get started. But it seems like life is just tossing one obstacle after another in my way. Yesterday evening I was informed that I no longer have a job. I think the actual reason behind it has to do with ...
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Wanted to throw this information out there and understand it further:http://www.remodeling.hw.net/cost-vs-value/2016/There's a number of articles on the web citing the above reference (saying do the top 4 in your area...