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Hey all! Though I have been listening to the podcast for nearly half a year this is my first contribution to the site. I am a CPA working in Financial Due Diligence at one of the Big 4 accounting firms. After working ...
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Why I dislike Arbitrage. Keeping simple. Arbitrage a $200,000 house in average area. You supply furnishings, maintenance and upgrade. Both need STR insurance. Arbitrage is all the work for part of the money. If landlo...
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I've been monitoring prices in Washington, DC, and I am seeing some really rapid appreciation in the last 2 years. A friend of mine has been getting outbid at every turn. Is this flight capital from other countries, o...
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Hey,
I want to buy and hold rental properties. My primary motivation is to own cashflow. My stocks are broad index funds, and they do not return much in the form of dividends (I know, it's more tax efficient). We r...
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We are just finalizing our investment property loan and planning on jumping into the str game. We are interested in a few different national/state parks and ski towns and are trying to narrow it down. Someone recommen...
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Hi there BP family,
I heard on a recent podcast episode from the guest (David seemed to concur) not to mess around with ARM loans. Can anybody offer insight into that? Whose had any experience at all with them and w...
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I only have 10 listings currently but my goal is to ramp this up pretty rapidly towards 50+ units and I can already see housekeeping and linens being my #1 stumbling block. Linens: We do houses not apartments for the ...
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Hi,Thanks in advance. I live near Tracy. I feel better to invest in California where I can drive easily like Fresno, Sacramento, etc., I see few of my colleagues are investing in Florida. I would like to get your fee...
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I've been watching my market closely for quite a while. It seemed when the downturn started to hit, It really didn't affect us here at all at first....for awhile...It slowed a little while later. Now - over the past ...
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Hi everyone!
I am Laura and my now husband and I have been spending the last couple of months learning as much as we can about REI.
We live in NJ and we were in Philadelphia for a good numbers of years for college.
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