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I keep reading advice to talk to a lawyer or have a lawyer do certain things for you to make sure everything is good (ie for forming your LLC, and other real estate transactions).However, I have this notion that lawye...
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I have 30 year mortgage (rate is below 4%) on my current residence where I've lived for about a year. I could pay it off (I owe $185,000) and have about $10,000 in emergency savings leftover. My family thinks I should...
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Yes, fired Pricelabs. And I feel relieved for it.
I studied the whole "dynamic pricing" phenomenon for months before deciding to proceed with Pricelabs. I had a few phone calls with Pricelabs, and their basic premis...
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I have had one of the worst experiences with rehabbing a home in Glendale Heights, IL (Suburb of Chicago) with the city inspectors. Some of the most picky, arrogant, expensive, nastiest, non-cooperative inspectors tha...
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Reading Ray Dalio's book makes me contemplate some more about where real estate is heading. Looking back at the last 15 years everything seems so predictable. New housing starts grew year over year and well exceeded l...
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Thanks to the great advice I got from the folks on this forum, I now have a great tenant in place for my first rental starting 6/1, and we are putting an offer on a duplex later this week, so exciting! So naturally I'...
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So this deal is as such:
545k, plus 19k to the wholesaler.
14 units of efficiencies, 2 units of two beds.
2015 gross was 101k, plus 4K from laundry coin machines.
NOI was 61k, landlord pays all utilities for the effic...
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New to Private Money Lending/Hard Money Lending and I would prefer to hear from you guys before I make a million mistakes! Scenario: I myself, want to lend $200,000.00 and the lawyer does up the contract for the note ...
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I have a customer that just had a fire at one of their 5-plex buildings. They were wondering if they should use a private insurance adjuster to make sure the insurance company is treating them fairly. As you expect,...
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Hey everyone how's it going ? I am new to the site and new to real estate I am actually not even an investor yet but that is what I want to be soon. However I have a question on behalf of my father. His dad passed awa...