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Hi Everyone! I get it. Birmingham is a great place to invest in and you get your ROI. However, recently I started noticing that in the Eastern Birmingham area, most homes, acquired by Out of State Investors (Californi...
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Often I have seen advice given to always reinvest off the properties you are acquiring, my simple question would be (and there may not be an easy answer) would you take cash flow and pay down mortgage(s) so you could ...
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Perhaps I'm generalizing, but I see some heavy hostility towards the idea of whole-saling in the forums. Why do a lot of members seem to be so against wholesale? I've seen "unethical" and "shady" thrown around a lot...
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Hey everyone -First post here as I'm just getting my feet wet, but I'm looking to buy my first rental property within the next 6-9 months and was curious what you would recommend for a first time investor. I'm waitin...
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My plan is to house hack a MFH for my first investment. I’m 21 years old and have never lived away from mom and dad, so doing so will not only be my first experience with REI and being a LL, but also living on my own....
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Can anyone recommend a service for mailing wholesale flyers? I usually do my own, but its too darn time consuming as I now have a buyers list of over 650 buyers in my state but only physical addresses. I would prefe...
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I am about to sell another flip, and I have been deciding rather or not to buy a commercial property to flip, for the reason that the banks are wanting too much for dilapidated housing that has all turned too competit...
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New to Grand Rapids mi... I've flipped two houses before and I use the technique ARV*70% - repairs and my realtor is admit that this technique will NOT work here... It's been three months so far (my second realtor) an...
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I'm really curious to get opinions from other buy and hold investors with numerous financed properties in their portfolios. Currently, I'm in a healthy financial position, and I have 6 rentals that are all cash flowin...