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I have never been a big fan of 401k and retirement accounts in general that are invested in mutual funds. I have always thought of it as a "life deferral plan", you put money in, that is money that is lost from your l...
Here is brief story about my first flip. My name is Dakota Coburn and I decided a few years ago that becoming a real estate investor was the right career path. I spent 12 month researching, reading, analyzing, going...
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Hello everyone!I am closing on a 20 unit building and my goal is to make it as "green" as possible. It currently has 7 vacant units, it is a 1928 brick building with a flat roof. So, I am looking for any and all of th...
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Does anyone have experience with an agent lying about the state of utilities at a site unseen property. I am a first time investment property owner from Hawaii investing in North Carolina. I was told my HVAC and plumb...
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We are in escrow on a duplex zoned R2 that has a detached garage that was converted into an additional unit without permits. The housing department states that it needs a new certificate of occupancy because it's no l...
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Investing in short-term rental (STR) properties and using the STR Tax Loophole is one of the few tax strategies that can save physicians with a fairly high W2 income 6 figures in taxes without working full-time in rea...
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Who is suffering in a market from Covid-19 so far?
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I have hardly been on BiggerPockets all summer because our market is on fire! I was busier than the proverbial one-legged man during COVID, had about two weeks of normalcy, and then the market exploded.I manage 400 re...
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If you saw my post last month I recently inherited a 60 unit apartment complex that I am now self managing..ok.. so here in baltimore it is june and temps are running about 85 degrees during the day and goes down t...