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Hey house hacking community, I've been active on these forums for a while and finally getting ready to purchase my first house hack within the next 3 months. My goal is to save on my living expenses and pay less than ...
Hey Bigger pockets,I'm working on a project to use data to compare US cities rental markets. Please take a look and let me know what you think. I am using the following categories: 1 Yr Job Growth3 Yr Job GrowthCurre...
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Some very interesting data to share with you all on April rent collections across the US. One of the factors that particularly caught my attention was the impact of agriculture across several of the markets. In your e...
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I've heard the horror stories from landlords about how the tenant they were evicting poured cement down the toilet, played hammer darts in every room, ripped out the copper, or left piles of garbage for the landlord t...
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Lots of people have asked me how to start doing a "Rental Arbitrage" in STR (short term rentals - Airbnb is most popular but VRBO is another way).Rental arbitrage is you as the investor rents a home and becomes the te...
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So to touch on the subject of my post, I got to mow the grass at my duplex and cut down 5 foot tall weeds, because my mower has apparently not shown up and I got a call from the chief of police on Friday, yay! Also go...
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I have been trying to get involved in real estate for some time now.. I can not get my wife on board with the ideal. She is afraid we will lose our money. Any suggestion to change her mind?
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Much of this thread is repost of parts of other threads and blogs from a year ago. I"ve been continually asked about this subject and there are lots of newbies on BP that may benefit from this.
I want - to start wit...
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There is so many posts on mailer how tos. But what do you do PRIOR to getting your lists and putting in the mail. What systems do you have set up?Do you get preapproval for funding first?Etc....