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W-2 investor looking for evening/weekend meetups - suggestions??
As a W-2 investor, I haven't had any luck in finding any meetups in the Greater Austin Area that are held in the late afternoons/evenings or on weekends. I have only found one (REIA Austin) but it gets mostly mixed re...
Rohan Attravanam
Newbie from Sunnyvale - San Jose - Bay Area CA
Hi all,I'm Rohan Attravanam, a total newbie into Real Estate Investing but very passionate about investing and personal finance in general. Financial Freedom is why I wake up everyday :). I'm so excited to have found ...
Brad Smith
Real Estate License or Not?
I know this topic has been discussed quite a bit but I think my angle is a little different. I haven't read all the previous posts so maybe not.I have already purchased and have been studying my Kaplan home study mat...
Miguel Hernandez
Information needed before Wholesaling
Hello BP members. I am from Los Angeles, but I virtually fix and hold properties in Wisconsin. It’s been pretty slow for me so I sat down to go over some things I needed to scale my business to the next level. I reali...
William Hochstedler
Can I tie up a short-sale property while I wait for it to foreclose?
A client (buyer) came to me interested in a listed house in the pre-foreclosure process. The listing agent is not local and doesn't impress me as being able to get a short sale done as there are 4 trust deeds on t...
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Why don't more people flip?
With all the shows on TV, and all the hype around this type of career or whatever you want to call it, it makes me wonder why more do not take the plunge into flipping properties. I might be asking this question beca...
Rob Chiang
Lesson learned from an airbnb Squatter
Full disclosure: this long drawn out situation is over, but it is still worth sharing so other members can learn from my blunders. I rented out an SFR to a corporate leasing service (they rented out the rooms on thei...
Jay Hinrichs
Unlicensed agents being charged in court
http://www.straitstimes.com/news/business/property/story/woman-charged-marketing-foreign-properties-without-licence-20140521As many may know there is a huge sales effort over seas to sell US turn Key properties. And m...
John Thedford
BP Is A "HOTSPOT" Of Illegal Activities
Just got a call from DBPR. That is the Department of Business and Professional Regulation in Florida. They regulate licensed and unlicensed activities. Their call was in relation to an unlicensed broker complaint I fi...
Michael Johnson
Theres absolutely positively no way ..... is there?
Michael Johnson, unproven; yet serious.I walked into a local real estate office and chatted with a lovely realtor named Annabelle. After 15 or so minutes, boom she invites me to her office and we started looking at th...