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Good Afternoon,I listened to Wheelwright's podcast the other day discussing how short term rentals do not have the same rules as long-term rentals when it comes to some of the tax laws around active/passive investing....
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Hi BP Community! My wife and I own a single-family home in a top school district. The house is a smaller colonial with 3 beds and 1.5 baths. While the interior is nice, the first-floor kitchen and bath are original fr...
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Hi you! We are considering investing in Houston as foreign investors (from Belgium), our goal is to find and start with a long-term rental single or multi family home. We would buy this house all cash. Any recommendat...
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Hello all!I recently closed on a commercial condo unit (for retail), which is one unit in a building that also has 7 apartments. There is an HOA.We have been working with the developer to make the unit ADA compliant,...
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Hey everyone!
I'm thrilled to join the Bigger Pockets family. Currently based in Madrid, Spain, I'm looking to invest in real estate in Miami. I'm quite disillusioned with the situation here in Spain, and here are a ...
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Good morning BiggerPockets,Last week I started my first direct mail campaign. I bought a list from ListSource and sent out postcards to a few hundred absentee landlords in the area where I want to invest. The postcard...
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I own a few single family homes in the Saint Louis, MO area that I'd like to either pull equity out or leverage in order to positively progress with my real state investing. I paid cash for e properties so there are n...
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Hey BP,
I am under contract and passed the due diligence period on a tri-plex located in South Carolina. After discussing my concerns around the current market conditions sorrounding COVID-19 with my agent, she menti...
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Hi Y'all:We're in the stages of possibly transitioning away from our financial advisor at a large institution to a third party custodian and hiring a true Fiduciary. The one I'm considering right now is fee based only...