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Hi,So, I am from Houston and I was there last week helping friends and family recover from Hurricane Harvey. It was a very sad, fulfilling and humbling experience. I notice upon my return that EVERY REAL ESTATE AGENT ...
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Hey everyone!My family has a property in Colorado that is currently for sale, but we are considering taking it off the market and keeping it as a vacation rental. It's a nice house and has a lot of valuable art in it,...
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Hey guys my name is Adrian, and I was driving for dollars and found a couple abandoned home, but I can’t find any useful information on the owner like current address, or number, e-mail on the county records. So any a...
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Hi BP - just looking for some assistance as I continue my REI journey. I have a Sub - 2 deal lined up and the homeowner is very interested. Here's the situation...1. ARV is $155k - (Needs a new roof in a couple of yea...
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My husband just went down in our tenants basement to replace the smoke detector and discovered water marks from a very obvious recent flooded basement. My husband texted them to see what happened in the basement and t...
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I'm not sure I get it...it seems that there are very few things we can do that actually add value to a fix up project. It seems painting gets the highest rate of return for the cost involved. So why are all these flip...
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Am on my second house hack the first one I was in for about 2 years. I rented it for 2,750 per month a large house plus guest house and was able to dived a 3rd unit and still had lots of room for me and my family. The...
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I'm thinking of buying a Condo in a fairly popular tourist destination a couple blocks off the beach in Hawaii. Ide be Investing about 40k for down payment, closing and rehab. It could cash flow roughly $1350mo, thats...
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Hello BP community,
My name is Mike and I am looking to begin my real estate investing career.
I live in the San Fernando Valley in LA County, and I am looking to purchase my first rental property. I’m looking to in...
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Hello My siblings and I have recently taken over our grandparents 4 family home. I have more or less been running it for sometime now but I want to expand our portfolio. I am nervous about investing in the area I live...