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Hello,I live in the Sf Bay Area and as a novice RE investor I feel I am priced out of this market. So I was looking around for better places where properties are still affordable and worth while investing within a 2 h...
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Hello BP Community,I recently mailed out my first yellow letter batch to absentee owners, and I wanted to provide some info as to how things were going so far. I purchased a absentee owner list of 250 leads and used t...
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Hi! So curious what you guys would do in our position.
We bought a house in Seattle (White Center) five years ago and it has appreciated around 200K so far. Each year, we spent a few months in Michigan and we Airbnb’...
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Hi, BP family! I'm just starting out and came to BP by way of Afford Anything, which I've been listening to somewhat obsessively since about December. Paula from Afford Anything just came out with her Your First Renta...
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Say I am an accredited investor and I want to allocate $500k for a type of investment that should be capital preserving; completely passive; and generates $100k annually in income. In general that's a tough row to ho...
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A few active threads popped up on BP with the consensus being something like “hahahah Zillow lost a lot of money trying to flip houses…How dumb are they, lets all point and laugh’. Or lets make memes about them, becau...
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Hi, I just put a unit for rent on the market. I have received about 60 applicants in less than a week. Is my rent too low or is that average?
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- Permitting. Permitting. Permitting.
One of the reasons I moved to the Oregon Coast from southern California in 2018 was due to the notable difference in the barrier to investment entry and the non existence of sho...
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All, I'm new to real estate investing, but I'm good with numbers (I am an accountant). Here's my newbie question...
I listen to Dave Ramsey regularly (and I see that there are several on here that do as well...
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Many "Guru's" will say real estate will be dead by all the big/private firms buying into the real estate market , eventually flooding it where they hold all the inventory and control the market. Many topics are discu...