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My wife and I own a two-flat in Chicago, and we're planning to upgrade our heating system. Currently, we have boilers and radiators that we want to remove to create space in the basement for a future conversion into a...
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Hey guys! I’m just getting started with real estate investing and I’m in the process of finding a real estate agent. Are there certain questions to ask them to make sure we’re a good fit for each other? Also what are ...
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Hello,I have been looking to invest in the Atlanta market for about a month now and will be closing in on a deal soon(I hope). I found a Property Management company called Specialized Atlanta who also does business in...
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I'm a bit lost, where do you start when looking to buy your first rental property.Do you hire a realtor/agent to help pick from a portfolio of investment properties that they determined alongside with their broker a b...
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Recently a few business partners and I invested in a 16 unit apartment complex in Phoenix, Arizona. We were given rent roll for 4 months prior to purchase that showed 15/16 units filled with paying tenants. The P&...
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Has anyone done a HELOC on and investment property or know lenders who will take a second position on a Equity line? I have a primary with too good a rate to refi, but have significant equity I want to tap without s...
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Been racking my brain trying to think of all the ways to get my place sold. A few things that I have come up with - not sure if they would have any effect at all - are:Offer a higher commission than the traditional 3%...
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We bought our first property near Cincinnati, OH a little over a year ago, a duplex for 140k. I did what I felt was thorough due diligence on it, and observed that despite selling for 100k in 2000, 115k in 2005 and 12...
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So I am a new investor and I met with a realtor who is a former investor himself. I left the meeting feeling good the only thing is he wants me to sign a exclusivity agreement. He said that it would be the seller that...
Hello Fellow BP Pros:A friend of mine (@Sean Sayler) & I have decided & committed to invest in real estate. We are both fairly young and neither of us have a lot of working capital. We both have full time jobs...