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Sacramento area has one of the highest rental price increases in the nation over the last couple of years. Given that I literally can’t afford an actual house in traditional standards. I can rent hack my first place. ...
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Hello all. I was wondering if anyone purchases properties in cash and what the pro/cons of this would be. I purchased a duplex at the beginning of this year in the pursuit to begin my road to financial freedom. After ...
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As all of us know the rates dropping for 2024 have had your average realtor and lender running to facebook to post about how great 2024 is going to be. I happen to be in the other boat... if you take the same amount o...
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Checking with the community to see if people are still Cash-out refi'ing. I am not scared of rates but they keep getting worse and my normal lender will only loan so small. I have a few properties I would like to refi...
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Greetings! I'm relatively new on BP and with real estate investing. I want to do real estate part time (preferably do buy and holds on multifamily properties). After gradating college, I'm have been in a financial slu...
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Hi BP!
What Baltimore City, MD small local banks / credit unions have you worked with for blanket loans?
Completely understand the current times and am still willing to engage in setting up a phone call to discuss m...
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I've started this real estate journey (buy-and-hold multi-family, 12 doors now), and I want to take next steps to continue to grow and use leverage and my resources as smartly as possible. I'd like to find someone I c...
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Forgive me if this is a ridiculous question. I presently have 2 profitable duplexes on Long Island. I am interested in out of town real estate, however a mortgage broker that I contacted has said that my debt to incom...
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How to look at your property like an investor is not always easy. You need to always treat your property like a business. I can say this because an investor myself who’s owned both Single and Multi-Family properties o...
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For those of us committed to the buy and hold approach. Frothy markets make it tempting to sell! I would love to indulge with a milk mustache and take my profits to the bank and wait for the next recession to hit but ...