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I contracted to purchase an REO in December of 2010, skipping all the long and boring details, I finally just received word that the deal is accepted and I am now in escrow. I will not post any of the real numbers her...
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Do you believe that we should be willing to pay more tax to help house the homeless?I'm going to ask again in a minute, but first am going to tell you about 2 of my properties.Rental 1.I've owned it for 4 years wit...
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My wive and I were in Tulum for the second time in about a month's time and love the whole Riviera Maya. So much so that we are thinking about buying an investment condo in a new development that just blew our mind. T...
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This is a long overdue thanks to the BP community as a whole and the mentors and friends I have met through BP.
By way of background, my core investing strategy is buy and hold. I hav...
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I'm looking into some better guidance into tax planning and a new CPA as I grow my real estate business. Has anyone worked with Tom Wheelwright's ProVIsion or now Wealth Ability? I had a consultation with them and ...
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I'd like to get ideas from BP members on the topic of seller financing under the new laws.
Not looking for smart comments from several we already know don't like the changes but here's the fact:
It's th...
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So very long story shortened my water bill is extremely high this month. We average $35.00 a month and this month it was $151.20. The jerk landlord told us in a very nasty little note to check out water leaks which we...
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Intro…Keeping with the spirit of @J Scott 's “Diary of a New Construction Project” where we jumped into a HUGE project that we never really had done before, “Tear a house down and build a new one back”. This adventu...
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Well it's happened. people are applying to rent our units with their emotional support pitbulls and other animals . Of course we follow all fair housing laws . but what we need to do is weed out people that have legi...
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I am starting to get into syndicate investing and have been reading Brian Burke's "The Hands-off Investor" which is a pretty in-depth guide to analyzing real estate syndications. He says it all starts with the sponsor...