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This is a brief overview of how I went from a family business employee (with 7 children), only earning 60k/yr, filing bankruptcy in early 2016, to someone who will be completely financially free 18 months after I purc...
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Not sure if this has been posted yet, but I think it is worth sharing. I heard on the Rental Income Podcast w/ Dan Lane, bonus episode from this Saturday "The Ugly Truth About Mortgage Forbearance", the long term eff...
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For rental payments, I have been using erentpayment.com, but due to the issues that have just surfaced regarding fraud, I need to find another vendor. In short, for those who haven't been following the discussion, a l...
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I'm the asset protection attorney out of Austin, Texas that protects real estate investors from lawsuits. What I want to know is the question you have about lawsuit protection, taxes, insurance, financing, etc. as it ...
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did anyone catch Prez Bidens comments on how he wants to pass a national rent control at 5% max rent raise ?? my worry is there will be other stips in that if it was to pass.. Or do you all think its just pandering to...
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This is an open discussion about non-profits providing or facilitating special needs or specialty housing, yet doing so profitably for those who operate the housing services. This has basically arisen out of another t...
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Cost to buy anything is Colorado is so high now that by the time you add rehab expenses and then have rent taper off on the other end BRRRR starts to no longer make financial sense. Maybe I’m just inexperienced or no...
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Hey Bigger Pockets community, I’ve been a long time member, but rarely post. Last year I went through a transition from a small local vacation rental management company to Vacasa as a result of a buyout, and I’m hopi...
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I read an older discussion on the website Hubzu and having recently been involved in a sale with them, I felt an update was needed. Hubzu is an auction website for bank foreclosed properties. During the transaction I ...
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Hello,
This is my first post here and I would like to say thanks in advance for any insight and advice.
Here's my situation:
I have two rental properties that I own free and clear. I've been building up some cas...