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Hi all, quick question today.I've been looking at a few older property listings while searching for a buy-and-hold rental property in Michigan. I'm aware that I should be watching out for "red flags" on these older pr...
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I'm curious to hear people's choices and reasons for using and/or reasons for not using any of the numerous self-directed IRA custodians out there.
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Hi, just wanted to get some general advice from some seasoned investors. My wife and I currently both work and make pretty decent salaries, were in our 30's and are paying off our 15 year mortgage on your primary resi...
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In addition to our long-distance real estate investment, my husband and I want to build out an attached ADU out of our 3rd garage port. Does anyone have experience, successes, or failures they learned from, while buil...
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Operating Expenses seem to be a big shade of gray for investors. Especially for a newbie like myself who has never run an investment property. Do the vets recommend itemizing expenses when running a cash flow statem...
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Hi All,I'm curious how people are continuing to justify buy-and-hold investments in Illinois suburbs with the current state of property taxes. I've got my eye one pretty inexpensive property which is listed at $80K, w...
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Newbie here starting out, that is about graduate college and is looking into buying a multi family to house hack. The certain house I am looking at has 4 beds upstairs then 2 downstairs. I would live in downstairs whi...
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There seems to be a glut of STRs in every major market, yet there are RE agents out there telling people that there is demand.There may be demand, but if the owner cannot book their place to cover the costs, how can R...
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I know that BiggerPockets looks down on guru education programs and seminars that cost thousands of dollars to teach people what they can learn for free on this website. However, I didn't find BiggerPockets until afte...
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Thank you @J Scott for starting the new construction diary. It's been our inspiration to do one of our own now. In this thread we are going to track the progress of our first Crowd Funded new construction project in...