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I've been looking into ways of getting into real estate by doing short sales with banks as my first avenue to get started. I guess I would be considered a "bird dog." This would be to get me started. The whole fore...
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Hello all and thank you for any help!
I attempted to buy my first STR and it hasn't gone perfectly... But at least I've learned a lot so far! I am now at a place where it feels like I need a lawyer or at least some l...
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I know I want to focus on multi family buy and hold but I have not made a purchase yet. I plan to purchase a few this year to get my feet wet and find out a good cycle of dealing with tenants. I plan to do my property...
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In addition to our long-distance real estate investment, my husband and I want to build out an attached ADU out of our 3rd garage port. Does anyone have experience, successes, or failures they learned from, while buil...
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Tennant of 2 years did final walk-through with landlord in person, noted various issues like fridge/oven/microwave cleaning & one missing garage key. Some burnt out light bulbs, dirty unchanged air filter, dust/ha...
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Not sure how to proceed —2 adult tenants. No children . newly moved in and tested for lead on peeling paint on side of painted bathtub. Positive. From what I’ve read, I am required to remediate this if a child under 6...
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To all of you bloggers, I know some of you have blogs that are highlighted on BP, are your blogs also part of a blog that you do seperately in your business, or do you do them only for BP? Do you write a blog that goe...
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While using the site Zillow to browse for multi family investment properties I have noticed what they call their "Zestimate." (their estimation of the home's value) I would like to know how useful other investors hav...
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My first two houses sold within 5 days of listing, so this is new territory for me and any guidance is appreciated.
This house has been on the market for 5 weeks and not one offer has come in.
The typic...
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Do retail home buyers care as much about home value as investors do? Investors buy to make a profit, so I can see why home values are very important to them. Retail home buyers are buying to live in the homes not to m...