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Hi BP community,
I recently went to my first real estate event in Los Angeles that I found through Bigger Pockets. I loved the event. I met so many wonderful people and got to know a lot of them. Many people that at...
I bought my first duplex in August of 2021. I pulled money out of my 401 for the 25% down (80K). Payment is $1500/month and rents are 3K. I bought my second Duplex in February 2022. I pulled again from my 401K for ...
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I'm currently in a recourse loan on a MF property and in the middle of refinancing. As I evaluate loan offers I am getting both recourse and non-recourse offers. Of course I understand the desire to have a non-recou...
In terms of the widening gap between US and Canadian house prices since 2006, this seems to be a strange economic phenomenon. It is almost as if the US prices are artificially suppressed as both markets appear to have...
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I'm a Bay Area resident/home owner and hoping to buy my first rental property sometime in 2023. More specifically I'm looking at a SFH in a handful of neighborhoods in Sacramento. I know neighborhood classes can be ve...
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So I have done a lot of research as well as been to a few seminars but I haven't be able to find any real estate investors in my local area. So next week I'm going to make the 2 hour drive to the closest REIA. Hopeful...
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I have a 80% LTV on a conventional loan at 3.85%. I'm wondering if it's possible to take advantage of lower rates and do a HELOC at the same time? Is this newbie thinking? I'd like to avoid double appraisal fees, and ...
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I ask this because I am modifying my strategy slightly to include this after paying a crap load of taxes last year. I fought the urge to do this since moving can be a drain on resources both time and money. I may be...
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With a thousand different companies out there, large, small, tech driven, brick and mortar, local, nationally, there are a lot of options. What are the few deciding factors for you that led you to the real estate brok...
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So it looks like in the Provo/Orem market, it is not a good time to buy multi family properties because many people are looking for them and the price to rent ratio is very very low. The only way that I could see how ...