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Hello, My name is Gail from Georgia. I am a newbie looking to purchase tax lien certificates out of state. I am looking to purchase online, because some of the tax lien certificate states are too far from me. My state...
Buy and hold multifamily residential property vs. note investing vs. REITs, Pro vs. Con?One podcast I heared Joshua Dorkin mention he was interested in shifting from buy and hold multifamily residential, to note inves...
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I know that I am limited to placing $5,500 per year into an IRA. But it appears that I can still put money in and have it count for 2016 if I do it before the tax filing deadline, right? So can I open an IRA, max it o...
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Hello my name is Justin Reyes and I’m 30 years old. I been working for a company for only 3 years and have about $30k vested in my 401k. I want to take it out and buy my first property to possibly hack or 1031 exchang...
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Hello BP community,I recently just road-tripped from Portland, Oregon to Columbus, Ohio to start building my real estate portfolio here. However, I've just come across a huge hurdle. I received my job letter and it's ...
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Hello BP,I need some advice. I have the opportunity to quit my job and partner up doing wholesaling full time, we are actually starting to get some deals done now. I am excited about the opportunity, and the benefit...
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View reportHere is a different deal that popped up this morning. So using some advice from my last analysis and comments I got back I increased my expenses for vacancy and lowered my assumptions about income growth to...
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So I'm not technically a newbie to Bigger Pockets (been following BP for about 6 months now), but I never did an introduction when I first joined and Bigger Pockets really helped me close on my first rental property a...
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I am a newbie investor from Grand Rapids, Michigan and I am looking to get into long-term rentals in West Michigan (Grand Rapids, Grand Haven, Holland Muskegon, etc.) I have gone around and around but decided that wh...
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What are some unexpected issues you guys have come across in your investing either with tenants, property managers or contractors that you really wish you could have anticipated but that caught you off guard on a proj...