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Hello everybody! My name is Ahmed Clark. I'm 29, a Husband, Father, Photographer and Full-Time Firefighter. I am absolutely brand new to the property investment business. I'm looking to buy and hold a few rental pr...
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Hello everyone, I have two questions!1) Has anyone used Property Radar? It seems to be a great lead generation tool to send out direct mail, I've used list source to create my leads but okay return. But on the other h...
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Hello BP'ers !I'm currently under contract on my first investment property and will close on January 12th 2024. I live in Virginia in the Hampton roads area but have went under contract on a 6/2 2700 sq ft house in El...
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When the offer was made, the lender ordered an appraisal. The lender countered with a net of 85% of the appraised value. I made 3 counter offers but, they wouldn't budge from the 85% net.
In order to postpone the f...
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Does anyone have knowledge or experience with this? is one way to handle it to w/d 1/10 per year...?...if 1 cannot predict one's income and tax brackets? and when one pulls it out, then best tp put in roth ira? or sel...
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I am a wholesaler in LA County and got 2 leads in my pipeline and need some guidance on one of them.ARV 180KRepairs 30KAssignment Fee 15KMAO PP 81KThe property was owned by join tenants (biological father and step-mot...
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Closing on a property tomorrow in the Atlanta area. I want to make sure the guy that lives there is gone when we close... he is one of the sellers (there's like 8 - long story). If he is not gone when I get ownership ...
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I'm brand new to investing, so I'd like some feedback on my ideas of getting started. I'm 53. I've been teaching abroad for 20 years. I keep hearing and reading about how important it is to keep one's big-picture goal...
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I have a beach duplex in Southern California valued at around $1.8M; I originally purchased it for $350K. If I do a standard sale, my long term capital gain minus my $250K primary residence exemption will be high cons...
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As of Feb-05-2016, the New York Times is reporting: Wages Rise as Unemployment falls below 5%.Analysts said that the slowdown might push the Federal Reserve to postpone another interest rate increase when it meets n...