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Is it better to pay off your own home or start putting aside money for investing in real estate?
I have been a home owner for 8 years and I have always paid an additional ~10% of the monthly mortgage every month towa...
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My name is Sam. I am a student trying to get into nursing program. I love Real Estate. Actually, I used to be an assistant cost estimator for construction projects. My dream is to have rental properties (Single or mul...
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This makes sense to me - but would love anyone else's feedback. Thanks in advance!I am in process to cash-out refi my primary ($850k value, $240k owed, 3 years in on a 30-year fixed at 3.75%) - at a 30yr fixed at 3.4%...
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I am interested in purchasing a house at a tax defaulted property auction and had a few questions. 1) In California the previous owner has up to a year to protest the auction. It seems like from my research that th...
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My husband and I found a waterfront auction property that we purchased for vacation home/ possible short term rental. We purchased for 135,000.00 with a 10% buyers premium( SEV 79,900) We need to pay for within 30 d...
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I have a rental that used to be my primary residence. When we moved we refinanced to a 30 year. 4.75, non primary residence loan. About 4 years later now I have 100k equity in the property and 140k left to pay.
I pay...
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Hello,I have been looking for my first multi unit (duplex) in the Willamette Valley wine country area of Oregon ( it will become Sonoma in 20 years ;-) ) and my retired father (healthy and active 66 years old) has be...
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Hi BP, I found a commercial property that I really like but the agent is telling me he won't share the financials on the property because the owner isn't ready to "market" the property unless he finds a 1031 Trade. It...
Does anybody know ANYthing about buying and selling air rights? Im starting to research this topic, but so far, I haven't had any luck in finding anything useful. So even if you dont no much about it, may you please d...
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Do realtors use a specific formula to determine the exact value of a home, and/or what it should rent for? I know they look at the houses that sold in the past, etc. but is there anything esle specific that they do?