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Hello. My family and I are trying to get started on a journey to find land to purchase and build our homes on. I’m wondering how I should go about starting this whole process? How do I search for land? What strategies...
Hi all. I'm so happy to have found such a great group of helpful people.
My name is Caroline Bogart. The only background I have in real estate is buying the house we live in. My business partner has been building hou...
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I sell luxury shipping container homes for some builders. To date, it has been an all cash market but with California relaxing laws on ADU’s as well as the popularity of the use of them for AIRBNB units, it seems that...
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Has anyone worked with Surplus Lines Insurers for home owner's insurance policies or builder's risk insurance? What are the positives and what are the negatives?
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I am a fairly new investor (almost 2 years experience) and have a working relationship with another investor with much more experience in fix and flips. We recently were offered an amazing deal to purchase 4 lots in i...
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I’m located in NJ. I’ve been a landlord for a +20 years. My partner is a builder and recently he’s been charging for the repairs through his business. We’ve always had the sweat equity hand shake deal because I do all...
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Say i buy land in seattle with a house on it but the lot is big enough to build a DADU, if it cost 100k to build the DADU and I can sell it for 500k, and build it in a year, I could make 400k in profit every year by d...
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I was wondering which one of these two scenarios might be better (assuming $1 million budget):1- buy an old apartment complex, remodel and collect rent (maybe get a 8-9% CAP rate return)2- buy a bulk of brand new town...
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Hey! My name is James from Lexington, KY. I am new to the game of real estate investing. I have one rental property in another town that I sort of fell into. I worked really hard on turning it around and turned it int...
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Hello Bigger Pockets community! We are looking to expand our business (wholesale and flipping) into the Atlanta market and was hoping to hear some feedback from local agents/investors on the state of the market. How a...