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Hello BR Community!I love that you call this a community. It is one, but it also makes getting involved more inviting and friendly. My name is Whiney Redfield. I'm a landscape designer for a landscape architecture and...
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I'm starting to feel like my husband and I are really late to the party. We have lived in West Seattle for ten years and have accumulated enough savings to buy our first investment property. We have enough of a down p...
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I'm in the last week of my 2nd flip. I stand to make a good profit as I did in my first flip but like my first flip, we spent way too much time on it. The first took somewhere between 7-9 months while this one is go...
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Hi my name is Jake Jensen, I am completely new to real estate understanding basic techniques some investors are using, and being lost and confused when trying to apply them to my special current situation that changes...
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Hello All,
My name is Mike and I have been looking to get into real estate for quite some time now but seem to be suffering from analysis paralysis. I think the challenge has been focusing on a single strategy. My ma...
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I’ve been educating myself about real estate investing for about a year. Firstly, by picking Rich Dad Poor Dad, watching gurus on YouTube, and listening to every BP podcast and I’m ready to get some skin in the game a...
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I read that I can hire my children to work at my home base business, which is an LLC. We live in NYC, but our LLC is filed in NC.
Question: If I hire my 11 year old as an employee to do of course reasonable work for...
Can a house be rented out if it has a lien from the IRS?First off, would it be possible for my mother to rent the home out even with a lien from the IRS on it? Based on my basic research it would seem this area rents ...
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All,
I'm currently 23 and looking to get into RE. I live on under 40% of my income and know some of the many advantages to RE so I want to get in early for those advantages. I have about $10k saved right now (over...
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I know hiring a CPA or advisor is a good idea at any point, but at what point in an investor's progression does it become a necessity?I imagine it depends on focus, like LTR vs STR vs development... Curious to know yo...