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As an investor, after you reached your 1st year owning your rental properties, did any of you keep your rent the same, or increase it? What's the smartest decision, why or why not?
Thanks for your time,
Rhea
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Hey BP family,I hope everyone had a great 4th weekend!I had found a deal here in Austin, TX and was talking to a private lender/partner about the deal (not on BP to my knowledge). This person ended up going around me ...
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Should my wife and I buy our first investment property in Mount Shasta, CA or Columbus, OH. We live in San Francisco, CA and we both work in the trades and have a couple of connections with trades people in Shasta. Th...
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Hey guys I'm 19 years old and am wondering what I should do with my life. I graduated 4th in my class out of 678 students, not because I was the smartest but because I worked 10x harder than the rest of the class. I d...
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I would love to start getting into the real estate business but I do not have the real estate knowledge yet. So I wanted to ask how do I go about learning about real estate? My community college has a real estate prog...
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We're looking for reviews from landlords of the many online property management software programs out there.
If you have a few minutes and would like to try out one of the many sites included in our Directory of Onli...
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Apparently, if you already have the cards they will still work, but you can't order any new ones. Just venting here because I built a plan for my new out-of-state property around this system and now I have to scram...
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I am curious about how an investor can profit from finding notes available for sale and essentially wholesaling them. Anyone have experience with this kind of scenario?
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Please read my post before answering willy nilly, but I was wondering why is everyone here so against paying for real estate educational information?
I will preface to say that there are quite a few hucksters...
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This past weekend my friend invited me as his guest to the Yancey Events, Real Estate Workshop. He paid a couple of thousand dollars to attend and a free guest was able to join so he was generous enough to call me...