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Hi All -It's nice to e-meet you!I've read around the forums and listened to numerous podcasts and figured that it's about time I provided an intro.A little about myself:Based out of San Jose / San Francisco, CARecent ...
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Hello BP Community! My name is Abel Mendez and I live in the Englewood Cliffs area of North NJ. I would like to begin investing by summer 2017 in NJ and NY to start. I've been listening to the podcasts, began reading ...
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Hello!My name is Travis and I am a CPA from Waterloo, IA. I grew up in this area and received my degree from the University of Northern Iowa. I stumbled upon BP by researching one of the guru classes via a google se...
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I recently read David Greene's book on long distance investing where he mostly looks at building teams like contractors, agents, lenders and property managers. I am looking at taking a similar approach, but beginning ...
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Hello BP crowd! I just want to take a moment to introduce myself. I recently retired from the Army and moved to the Northern Virginia area. My wife and I currently own 2 rental properties, 1 in GA and the other in FL....
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Hi BP! Thanks for reading my post. Looking for any thoughts, opinions, guidance on my first purchase and subsequent path: I have a decent chunk of money reserved, enough to buy and renovate a true fixer-upper. I'm loo...
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Greetings, First, I want to express my gratitude to BP and all the members and guests, great site and extremely helpful, it gives hopes for those who are interested. My only regrets is that I did not come across this ...
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Hi there BP community!My name is Bianca Navalta, and my husband, Michael and I are from Houston, TX. Currently, we both work in the Oil and Gas Industry, and are about to start our real estate journey and ultimately b...
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Hello all,My name is Christian Cuevas and I live in Schenectady, NY. I have always been fascinated with real estate but never knew how to get started because I thought I needed to have tons of cash to start. Then I ca...
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My name is Brian Hunter from Palm Harbor in the Tampa Bay area. I’m getting back into real estate investing after nearly 15 years and I’ve found the resources in BP invaluable. The podcasts, BP member books and blogs ...