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I’m really excited to rent the upstairs apartment to my new duplex. I just posted my rental on Zillow and have several viewings scheduled. Anyone have advise or tips on how to further screen tenants prior to the viewi...
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Around here the banks offer $500 “Cash for Keys” to foreclosees if they will vacate quickly and leave the premises “broom clean”.
How about you landlords out there? Do you give any monetary incentives to avoid forma...
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With the Unites States market being so high and the fact that I travel to the Dominican Republic often a thought came to my head. What if I invested in the DR?? I live in Miami and everything here is out of this world...
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For people who use lawyers or are lawyers themselves, I'm just wondering if it's normal to be charged for simply responding to an email?
Usually these emails are simply one or two line responses or answers (that's ...
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I figured this day was coming. A good friend of mine just bought two-500 sq ft rental homes in Gatlinburg for $1 million. Granted, these are near downtown and right on the Roaring Fork River.This isn’t an out of sta...
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My numbers showed a conservative ARV of 3/1 rancher in Richmond, VA at $135,000. All-in costs including repairs, title, legal, lender fees, etc. was $108,000. I developed a relationship with a new bank with great po...
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Hey BP, I think I might have just had the craziest idea ever, and I need somebody to smack some sense into me and tell me it isn’t possible. But if it is possible, then it would be amazing.
So not too long ago I p...
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I am meeting with an 82 yr old lady in a couple days to begin discussions of owner financing her five paid for duplexes. She's had them over 20 years. She's been managing them for the most part for the last 6 years. S...
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So in the vein of previous posts like The 90 day challenge and 1 year challenge I am faced with a 6 month challenge. The story goes as follows.
I have/had a w2 JOB. It's ok, I'm well paid and it provide...
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I think I am involved in a crazy REO transaction. I get that they can take a while. I get that the ppl managing the property and the transaction are not in this business and do not care. I get that I am a "pimple on a...