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Since the pandemic hit in late March, many are not sure how they feel about staying at hotels or short-term rental platforms such as Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, and Tripadvisor Rentals. Airbnb, with 7.7 million active ...
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Hello,
My name is Elijah. I’d like to share my real estate story with you all:
At 17, I drove to Los Angeles from my small hometown in Vermont. I arrived with $200 in my bank account and all my belongings in an old ...
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First-Time Home Buyer: The Complete Playbook for Avoiding Rookie Mistakes is available now!
@Mindy Jensen and @Scott Trench have been buying and selling houses for a collective thirty years. In First-Time Home Buye...
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Hi - we're getting ready to "push the button" with Kay Properties on a 1031 finance purchase of a $100,000 offering. Still doing a little Due Diligence. This will be a first DST purchase for us, and the 3rd time invo...
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I am an attorney. I invest in real estate as a "side-hustle." I've flipped 6-8 houses, made good profit on those, and just purchased my first 4-unit multi for mainly cost seg purposes/long-term appreciation. My W2 ...
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Are "Medium Term Rentals" (1-2 month stays) the next big thing? I tend to think so as owners can trade max profits for lower costs, booking certainty & perhaps most importantly much lower regulation risk (most STR...
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Has anyone done business with Memphis Invest? I got a link to them thru an email blast from Bigger Pockets, and they want my business, but I don't really know anything about them except they are a turnkey operation i...
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Not surprising I guess considering the current administration......
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The first state in the nation to make solar mandatory for new builds starting in 2020 . Pros? Cons?https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/15/california-solar-p...
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Do rental rates usually fall when interest rates increase and home values decrease?