Don't blame everything on interest rates - It's because wages haven't kept pace
My wife and I bought our first house in Seattle in 1986 for $78,000. It was in a safe, desired neighborhood, post card view of downtown,...
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Welcome to A Skeptical Real Estate Dude my weekly post on market insights coming at you live from Nashville, TN. Every week I write a brief, hopefully insightful, dive into real estate and financial markets, for all y...
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Hello Folks,I am a licensed real estate agent in NJ. I am planning to bid on a sheriff sale property (for personal use ) in the coming weeks. Is there any paperwork that i need to do with my sponsoring RE broker ?Do i...
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Hi everyone. I've been listening to the podcasts for a little over a month now, and finally decided to get started on the forum. I'm under contract now for my first home here in Pensacola. I'm thinking to buy another ...
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My name is Ethan Johnson. I am new to the Portland area. Recently I have been listening to the biggerpockets podcast and have become very interested in real estate investing. Multifamily buy and hold properties seem t...
Can someone who has challenged credit still get started in real estate investing?
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I have four single family BRRRR properties in my portfolio where I have done the BRR but have yet to add on the last two Rs of refinance and repeat. These four properties are obviously cash flowing very nicely withou...
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Hello, I'd love a tour of Holyoke from someone who knows the downtown and its neighborhoods well ... Payment: I'll take you out to lunch and we can talk about real estate (fun!) . Or, a barter? perhaps a second set of...
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I recently came across privatemoneygoldmine which has lists of private money lenders. It looks different than most list generators since it claims to have a list of people in my area who have actually signed up on the...
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I'm looking to do a 1031 exchange on my owner occupied duplex in Los Angeles, where the upper unit was my personal residence for more than three years and the lower unit has been used as a long term and short term ren...