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This is more of a rant and personal opinion to hear what others in the know think. Yes, I get inflation has been out of control, but what is the real cause of our current inflationary trend. The Federal Reserve has de...
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Hello. I was wondering how everyone feels about staging homes that are being flipped. 1. If your market is hot and you are getting offers in days is it helpful still?2. Do you think it increases value or just lessen...
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Hey Guys, I am new here but in short I manage a few rentals for my father. He acquired them about 20 months ago to help diversify his retirement portfolio. Things have been going well with them, great tenants, solid...
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Hey BP Nation! I posted this in legal and got no response, so I'm re-posting here.
I'm a General Contractor who has worked with several investors where they buy the property first and hire me to rehab. I quo...
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Hey guys,I'm not sure what to do.. I know eliminating my student debt (I have about 19k) would ease some of my anxiety for sure, but is it the smart thing to do? I want to be financially independent in 10 years. I'd l...
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Hello, I am somewhat new to the real estate investing game, and want to start by flipping homes. My question is; as a 21 year old with not much money, just a whole lot of time, what are some things that I should star...
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A lot of topics have been discussed before, so many problems have been solved and I'm trying to read as much as possible to really get up to speed. There is years and years of knowledge and experience on the blogs, i...
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Hi guys, I'm looking to engage some hard money lenders to refinance my portfolio of SFR's that are held in cash (I'm looking to do a loan of $400-$500k on a 30 year fixed rate). I wanted check in with you guys:1) W...
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Hi everyone! As a financial advisor having a diversified portfolio is essential. Is that the same with real estate investing or is there actually more risk because you will have a difficult time learning and exploitin...
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I’m close to purchasing my first turnkey and I wanted to see what others thought about doing this during a pandemic. With unemployment rates running so high it seems likely that I could end up with an unemployed tena...