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I realize this number will depend on your personal financial and life situation, but what percentage of your overall investment portfolio should be allocated to investment real estate? What is considered a conservativ...
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Hello!I'm about to leave Virginia and move up north, and am really struggling on what to do with my current property. I own a 4 bed/2.5 bath single family house in Chesapeake, VA that has a good sized fenced-in yard ...
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I own 1 rental property that I bought 10 years ago. I let it sit and have been collecting rent on it... In the meantime, I had a family and am busy w/ my career. So then I started reading about the BRRR strategy and h...
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I am in the process of buying a flipped home. They made over 250,000
on the flip. There was a sign on the wall in the kitchen saying that a
Jenn-air fridge would be coming the next week when we made the deal. We
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So I have been working with a current investor client of ours recently to help him select a property to purchase from our company. I have sold him 2 homes over the last 3yrs or so and for the most part everything has ...
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Well, its a New Year! And for all of us who aspire for a better one, I thought we might be able to inspire one another with our methods and aspirations. Afterall, Napolean Hill's Classic Think and Grow Rich ask that w...
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Does anyone here belong to the CT REIA? I've always wanted to buy duplexes/triplexes in the area and hold as rental properties. I'm new to the area, and thought that joining CT REIA might be a way to start out. But...
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What's rent got to do with it?
Everything.
Rents drive the multifamily investor's business model. Put another way - rents are the heart - that help you beat the returns on your savings account or your ETF.
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For the most part, all of the real estate based operating systems are geared toward property managers, NOT investors. This includes metrics typically only the manager would need to focus on (work orders, billing, vend...