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This is long, so read at your own risk, but I hope that you will. I want to thank @lawrence moore who started the thread asking about owning your investment outright or leveraging. That thread had some good discussi...
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When a tenant leavesDo you hire cleaning service? Do you even clean the floors and windows?
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Good morning All,
I was wondering how everyone feels about allowing pets into rentals. Are you okay with it if the dog is small or a certain breed? If you don't allow pets is it more because of the damage they may ca...
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Hi all,
I had been using Stessa since I started investing in real estate to manage accounting on my 4 units. I have a property manager that handles payments/tenant screening so I don't need anything too fancy yet, bu...
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Say you decided to place one of your mortgaged investment properties into an LLC for asset protection. You're doing what you can to treat your LLC like a business (it has its own checking account, filed separately fro...
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Hi All,
After 8 years of investing and building my 9-property portfolio I would say the biggest obstacle I have faced thus far is scaling from buying 1 single family rental property a year to buying 5 in one year. Th...
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Owner of 2nd mortgage started foreclosure 2018 for non-payment and was pulled into Chapter 13 BK. BK Judge released BK hold to allow foreclosure by me after I proved the Original owner had quit-claimed property to ano...
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Hi
I am doing due diligence on a property and I see that the owner is showing only about 1/3rd of the annual rents that he is claiming that he is making. he is also managing the property himself. Have you had similar...
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House bought in 2009 with $115,000 left on 30 year note.
Pmts w/o Taxes&Ins = 705.11 @ 5.8%
Property taxes paid separately @ $3360/yr
Rent estimates at $1300/month
Ins pmts about $200/mo...
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Hello, I’m new to the forum and looking for a great company that can assist in converting my 401K into a checkbook controlled Self Directed IRA? Any leads and or advice?