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Hi, Everyone,This is my first post here, please advise if I should sell now or keep renting.My rental townhouse is in south San Jose. I lived there for 5 years before I rented it out. Now it is about 2.5 years after I...
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I'm a new investor looking to purchase my first home, we currently live in Raleigh NC. My fiancee and I have about 10k saved up and want to purchase a Duplex and do a house hack. We want to invest in hopefully the Ral...
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Just had breakfast with an old friend (high school) who has 13 houses, bare commercial land and back taxes.
He is negative cash flow but always borrowed his way out of jams with his equity.
He is foreclosure close ...
I'm working on my 2nd flip in Jacksonville FL's Murray Hill area. Initially listing the property at $170K to see how desirable the property was and attempting to maximize profit (which looking back at probably wasn't ...
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Hi BP community,
I am considering using a HELOC for a 50k down payment on a four-plex. The discounted off market price is 330k with the estimated fair market value at 390k. The mortgage broker has assured me some b...
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Hello,I am looking to buy my first rental property. I want to spend as little out of pocket as possible, and I am thinking that means I have to look out of the Chicago market and possibly out of state. Since this is m...
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I have hard time finding a good vacation rental cleaning company in North Jersey.I called people on craigslist but the prices are quite high. In my area hosts are charging 25-50 dollars for cleaning. I didn't find nob...
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I am new to Bigger Pockets but I have had quite a bit of experience in 4 1/2 years. Dropped out of college at 20 and bought one unit with 20% down in 2010. After that it was a snowball effect and I dove in head first....
Thanks in advance.
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So I found that it is going to be advantageous to me to purchase one of my new properties in cash, I am going to take a mortgage out in a few weeks later after some updates are completed to leverage the banks and keep...