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Hi, I just wanted to share my first flip with the BP Community. On February 1st I purchased a single family for $105,000 from a wholesaler. The property was the ugliest house in the neighborhood and was abandoned mi...
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In David Greene's book "Long Distance Real Estate Investing" (which is awesome, btw) I saw an argument that I didn't understand fully, which is basically "you should overpay on your mortgages to refinance them faster ...
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I saw earlier posts about the new law, SB 978, investor suitability requirements for trust deed investments.
California now requires that when selling or brokering all of, or an interest in trust deed investments, ha...
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im trying really hard to get the ball rolling with my real estate investing passion. the problem is I only really have about 12k to work with.i am having a hard time knowing if deals are "good" or not because im not s...
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What are all your thoughts these days?
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Hi everyone. I am new to the forum but I've been putting in a lot of time going through the posts and learning as much as I can about real estate investing. Ive been looking at a property close to where I live here in...
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Hi all,I have two recent mortgages both at $175k principal and 6.625% fixed for 30 years. I want to accelerate the payoff by either paying $500 extra on each or $1000 extra per month on 1 only and keeping the regular ...
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My friends,
587 days
Or 1 year, 7 months, 10 days
Or 19 months, 10 days
Or 83 weeks and 6 days
Or 845,280 minutes
50,716,800 seconds.... but who's counting? ; )
Honestly, it's been a blur! When I sat down to ...
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Hi all, has anyone else here loaned money to Matt Motil in Cleveland? We have a note coming due on May 1, but haven’t received April payment and have not heard from him in a probably 2 months. Just seeing if anyone ha...
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Hello BP community,What strategies are people using when investing in California? It seems that cash flow is not as favored by investors over here as other strategies like appreciation or flipping. I think any strateg...