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I'm shopping the market for my first duplex to house-hack, it's my first time buying a property, period. I plan to use a FHA loan and put down somewhere from 6-8%. I'm finding it very difficult to find deals that will...
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Or have you? A woman I recently dated also has a rental portfolio and retired in her 30's. She met a lady in California who told her as you get older you won't want to deal with the hassle of tenants and rentals or PM...
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I'm moving out of state and trying to decide if I should sell or rent my current home.., my current house built in 1996 is worth about 630k, mortgage balance is 210k on it. monthly payment is 2100 including tax and in...
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I love Bitcoin. I also love investing in real estate. Would some type of Bitcoin Q&A be good for the investor community on here? I think we're too often "real estate vs X". In reality, all different types of inves...
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I'm over 59.5 so I can withdrawal money from my IRA without penalties. I have a Roth & Conventional IRA. After watching my retirement funds drop significantly a couple of years ago due to the market I started thin...
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There are some new discount property management companies that charge 5-6% (instead of the more typical 9% in Utah or California) and have data showing that they keep vacancy and rents the same as the 9% alternatives....
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So far we have seen two waves of foreclosures... the speculators and the sub prime debacle.
The tide is rising now on the 3rd wave.... those who had great credit, but now have issues because of job losses etc.
To R...
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Do you use one LLC for all of your investment properties or one for each property? If not an LLC, which entity do you use and why? Doesn't the added cost of maintaining an LLC substantially eat into profit, especially...
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Hello everyone,I really want to jump into wholesaling. I have my business plan and market budget mapped out and such, but I'm very passionate about getting started the right way. I don't see this as a fly by night or ...
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Like a lot of young people have done my wife and I have managed to place a lot of debt on top of ourselves, some of it good some of it bad. My wife is a teacher making 35000 a year. She is a 10 month employee so her p...