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While I love this website and all of the information that is on here I believe there is too many people that just talk about making that first step towards investing but never do. So lets share what we are doing to re...
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I purchased a 3rd rental property in Los Angeles last year -- A SFR in a booming area I got off market for really cheap. It kind of came out of nowhere, so to obtain the property I got a conventional loan for 80% -- t...
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Hi all,
I've been doing a lot of reading and research on finding other ways to buy and hold apartment properties. By other ways I mean outside of the traditional 25% down mortgages or commercial loans. So lets just p...
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Does anyone here have a house managed by Arbor Trace in Birmingham? Or have you bought a house from Birmingham Income Properties? Their property management business seems to be falling apart due to conflict between ...
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My current tenants have approached me to ask if the could have a pet. My current lease with them states "No pets". They are GREAT tenants that pay the rent early every month and take very good care of the house. Their...
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I've been dividing my monthly rental income into 3 buckets.
Bucket 1 goes into repairs for the property
Bucket 2 goes into the mortgage payment
Bucket 3 goes into future investment savings (MM acct due to higher ...
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I have a tenant who I probably should've evicted a long time ago. Brief history: this tenant is the HR lady at my workplace and I originally broke my own rules by allowing her to have a pet and pay the security's depo...
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I just graduated flight school and I have a school loan because of it. The payments for the loan are deferred for 2 years, but still accrue interest (interest rate is 7.2% and balance is ~$60k). I intend to buy my fir...
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Hey everyone,This is just a random question. And here I refer good time to buy the Buy and Hold investments. This question is for Charlotte Real Estate investors, gurus, and agents. So, I've been reading the news abo...
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All five have renters in them and I'm house hacking in the 3 flat. I want to discover strategies to pay the loans off on these properties as quickly as possible. So would you flip homes until you pay off the loans o...