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Hey guys, I ended up here after reading Brandon's real estate investing book and listening to the BP podcast. I'm an Anesthesiologist with a wife and three kids. I'm interested in real estate because I hate sending mo...
Hello BP family,I have a investment property finance question. I own three investment properties in downtown Washington, D.C., that I have held since 2003. Each generates positive cash flow. In 2014, I refinanced a...
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Hello everyone! My name is Gary Timmons and am currently living in Columbus Ohio area. I have been lurking on the site for 3 weeks or so and to make me more accountable to my plans/goals I would introduce myself. So I...
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I'm looking to buy a rental property in a section 8 neighborhood. The house needs paint among other things. The house is advertised with a new roof, however they put new shingles on the roof but the underlayment looks...
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I do not know much about lenders and brokers and how much rates vary between them. I called my local lender brokerage here in town and I asked what the going interest rate was for a conventional loan for a duplex (not...
Hi there, looking to house hack a quadplex. Property value is $1.2mm and newly renovated, was purchased for $850k in 2020. I am in talks with a limited partner/investor but they are unfamiliar with the area and real e...
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Opportunity Zones are a new community development program established by Congress in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 to encourage long-term investments in low-income urban and rural communities nationwide.The progra...
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Hello everyone. I am new to investing and getting very close to finally getting my feet wet. Over the last couple of years my mindset has turned 180 degrees and I now look for investments rather than higher paying mor...
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This is the advice I got from a relative six years ago when real estate looked like it would never stop going up, gold was like $500 back then. He had liquidated most of his real-estate holdings (he owned several hom...
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Was listed last July at 450K, price reductions for 2 months down to 430K, then delisted just before Christmas. Listed again a week ago now asking for 445K.
The carpet in some rooms has some stains, nothing too bad, b...