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Hello all. Even though I am not new to being an home owner I am new to real estate investing. I currently own 2 homes in Bay Area California for 10+ years and sitting on $1 million in equity. First home I purchased ...
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I have been operating two short term rentals in a town a couple of hours away in a college town for a little over a year now. We recently expanded and now have another property about 5 minutes from where we live, and ...
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We are speaking with a seller at that still owes $70000 on his property. We offered $100k cash and he is not interested. He said he would be interested in creative or seller financing. Is there anyway to do this wi...
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Hi BPs Community,I'm looking to house hack with FHA 3.5% in NYC. Obviously, with PMI, house hacking with 3.5% in Brooklyn or Queens most likely means I won't cash flow until I pay off 20% of the mortgage + move out in...
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Hello Everyone,I'm new at this and don't really know much about investing in real estate. I know we have a website, realforeclose, where foreclosure properties are sold on online auctions. I did some research here and...
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I was just reading on another thread about the old debate of how many LLC's do you need? Just one? One per property? Somewhere in between? The idea is to segregate silos of liability exposure. That's fine, I don'...
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When filing our 2022 taxes, our CPA did not mention or encourage us to do a cost segregation study to capture bonus depreciation on the two properties my wife and I acquired in 2022. Our goal is to invest aggressively...
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If I am my own real estate agent buying an investment property for myself, do I get the % commission which would typically go to the buyer's agent?
Pretty simple question. I tried to Google it but couldn't find anyt...
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Houston investors... I currently own 4 SFRs in the Houston area. I was very lucky and walked away with minimal damage following Harvey. But I'm wondering whether this should be a wake-up call to get flood insurance ...
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I own a SFH.Bought it in 2009 at 385K + 50K in rehab = 435KCurrent Market Value 785KCurrent NOI = 32K Annual = 7.7 % Cap Rate on my investment, 4 % Cap Rate at current market pricesshould I continue holding it or sell...