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I've been actively using BiggerPockets for over a while, have been educating myself and attending a lot of networking events. All have proved helpful but still feel like I need some additional support. I've met plenty...
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In 2012 we hired a management company to manage one of our out of area properties in Illinois. What initially looked like a great match turned out to be a disaster, and we had to terminate the company after just one m...
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Hello fellow BP'ers,The wife and I are having our first not quite sure what to do moment as landlords. Background: We bought our first duplex in October 2018. We inhearited 2 tenants that were had been there for 3 yrs...
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I have gotten my first deals from the MLS, but have noticed a few neglected homes while driving around my hometown that I want to send some letters to. This is my first attempt at generating leads in this manner and I...
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So, let’s say I am considering the topic and idea of the prioritization of paying off loans.To me, it only makes sense to consider the principle of the question for the initial prioritized list. I believe that conside...
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Since mid 2020 when I started trying to better myself and put my life on a positive and successful track I have been spending every spare second gathering as much information as possible and putting it together to sha...
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I have multiple friends/people in my network interested to be private equity investors/partners in my flipping deals in WA. The agreement is that I will be receiving 20% of profit for managing a deal from purchase to ...
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Very interesting work done by Thriving Communities Institute program of the Western Reserve Land Conservancy that provided a report card grade of A-F for each home in Cleveland. You can use the map in this story to re...
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I want to start by first mentioning that I'm from the Chicagoland area. And the tenet I'm about to talk about has been a nice quiet tenet for as long as I have known them, so this surprises me. She complained about du...
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I put a REO SFR house under contract in Cape Coral earlier this week. Today I had a professional home inspector come do a thorough check. He found several areas where water has been seeping in the house for some ti...