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Hey BiggerPockets community!
My girlfriend and I are looking to purchase our first property together. We know that turning a profit in California is near impossible, but we want to live in California AND we want to b...
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walked out during the break to do some homework before shelling out the $2k they wanted to attend the 3 day bootcamp. They said we would get our money back if we didn't triple the tuition amount in 6 months. Though th...
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Hi everyone. I just found out that an inherited tenant that has been late on rent has been thrown in jail yesterday for home invasion. Apparently he had his brother go to the apartment and take everything that was his...
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Work hard and hand the excess over to your broker seems to be the common trend with most passive investors. The truth is most investors are in fact "passive". Meaning most people out there are too busy earning a livi...
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Hello all! Greetings from Port Huron Michigan! My fiance recently talked me into going to some real estate seminars locally and I have been hooked ever since! Turns out the seminars were nothing more than high pressur...
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I am interested in becoming an Investor and I am taking the time to do the research, listen to Podcasts, reading and website research and planning on getting my agents license in the next few months. I am serious in t...
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I tried searching the forums for this topic and could not find one, so apologies if this has been asked before and I did not see it....
I have a tenant who wants to pay for an energy audit (Includes installat...
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Hello Everyone! Newbie here from SF, CA. Originally from Chicago, been living in SF for about 7 years now working as a full time Accountant. I almost spent 10 grand on one of those online real estate mentor programs b...
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I am considering acquiring properties to be rented under the section 8 program. My thought is, buying between 50-90k livable (or less than 10k rehab) and being able to rent for 2% or at least close to it trumps the ca...
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I'm a newbie in the Sacramento area looking to buy my first SFR rental. I bought my primary residence about 15 months ago using a VA loan with no money down(Just $3k to cover closing costs). I have good credit (~750...