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Hello everyone!I'm new to the forum (been lurking for a while) and wanted to post about my experience to allow others to follow my journey. I've been in real estate for 18 years, am a licensed Realtor and have owned s...
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Hello everyone, my name is Bryan Cork and my family and I live in Colorado Springs. I am married with 2 not so little kids and am looking to establish a solid portfolio of rental property that will last into my kids f...
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This is a post based off of curiosity. To all self managing landlords that switched to using a property management company, what caused you to make the switch? Was there a situation you encountered that deterred you f...
I'm 29 years old and make $75000 annually. I have an opportunity to buy a nice 1x1 condo for $240000 in an decent area of Santa Ana (which is an OK area of central Orange County [it isn't the safest, but it's very con...
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Hello all, I have a SDIRA with some cash, 2 paid off properties and a stock portfolio in the SDIRAs name. I was thinking about leveraging those assets as collateral and doing some hard money lending. Is that a thing...
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Anyone used Investor Lion yet? I listened to awesome webinar today, but didn't pull trigger on the lead generation and platform being sold (collectively for $997), but I watched demo of Investor Lion and it seemed pr...
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I am excited to be a part of the BiggerPockets community! I've had a keen interest in investing for as long as I’ve been involved in real estate. After gaining some home equity, I sought to pursue my investing goals. ...
Have about $2k of profits sitting in a checking account solely for my rental ($4k total with SD).
When can/should I take the excess profits out and invest them?
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Hey BP folks!Although I joined BP last year, I'd still say I'm a new member as I haven't really dove in...until today! :-) What a wealth of info and the ability to network is priceless.Me: 56, California SF Bay Area (...
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Hello! I stumbled upon Bigger Pockets recently and have been listening to the podcast non-stop ever since! I just finished The Book on Rental Property Investing and now have a list of about 20 other books (thanks to a...