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Hello everyone, My wife and I are mid-30-something Silicon Valley professionals looking to diversify our investments (only stocks today) to include a large portion of it in real estate. We love real estate. One of our...
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We bought this outdated 3BR 2BA SFR in Woodstock, GA on Januaryry 27th 2017 off market through an agent who we networked with in 2016. We paid $105,000 Cash for the house. Demo started on February 1st and took 47 d...
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The basics- I live in DC, I have a rental in Ocala, FL sorta managed by my parents also in that city. When I bought the place the house to the left of it was a vacant tear down shack filled with junk, the house to the...
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Gooday to all. I was referred here from Jake and the flipping secrets family. I am looking to build a team of like mined go getters and go givers to make a dent in the up and down market we are in . All advice welcome...
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I have followed Michael Quarles' posts on other websites and I like a lot of what I read. I am not a huge proponent of mentors but at the same time, my free time/study time is very limited with my job and he offers a...
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Hi community,I have a single family rental and live in a duplex that has tenants. I sold a duplex recently that wasn't cash flowing well and now have about $40K to put down on a new property (these funds are separate ...
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In a competitive market, you would expect real estate commissions to get competed down between brokers. For reasons I don't understand, commissions stay high across all brokers at around 5% to 6% per deal. Can som...
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I have gotten to the end of my rope. Are there any gurus, mentors, or educators out there that dont make their "prospects" go through countless squeeze pages, info products, monthly installment type offers. I am prett...
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There's an addiction new or wanna-be investors have called education addiction. They drink books, articles, podcasts, classes, etc until they have a blurry-eyed hangover and then they repeat. I recommend mastering 1 ...
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I recently had a r/e agent tell me that their firm only transact with bank qualified buyers. Is this normal and why only bank qualified?? Or, was that person just being a jerk on a Friday🤷🏼♂️?