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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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Hello beautiful people of BP! So I work for a company that purchases preforeclosures and specializes in short sales. I want to build genuine rapport with the sellers I get into contact with and I understand that a loa...
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If you didn't get a chance to read pt.1 then the link to pt.1 is below, make sure to read pt.1 first to take the full value of how we structured/worked this deal! Part 1
I know there are a ton of investors out there ...
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So I am about to become a new Dad! My wife and I have a baby boy due end of June 2022 and I am wanting to get some advice as a new parent as to what are some of the ways that you all have prepared for your kids future...
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Hi BP,We are new to property management. We took the leap last February and purchased our first duplex. There are two one bedroom apartments. The downstairs tenant is an elderly lady. Per the previous owner, the ten...
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I see alot of people that advertise bandit signs and I think that they're a great avenue to get business . However I don't think it's worth the hassle if your going to get hassled by the local sign police if you conti...
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Hello everyone,First things first - I'd like to thank all of the contributors to this forum, your advices and inputs taught me *A LOT* - so I'm grateful for that.TL;DR: For a new RE investor with a good starting point...