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I am Lease/ Purchasing my home in Spring Tx. Montgomery Co. and I've already invested over 20K in this property but the owner went into default and tryin to catch it up but doesn't think she can before Feb.3rd Foreclo...
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BP colleagues,My husband and I are embarking on our first SFH short term rental that is 4 hours away from us in a semi-rural area of Texas. I've posted before asking for advice on if we should go forward with short t...
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In real estate investing "OPM" is thrown around so much like it's just some magical thing. You just wish for it, and it shows up on your lap. It just doesn't magically appear. Yet in everything, it gets tossed around ...
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I curiously joined BP on Dec. 30 last year, knowing nothing about investing in real estate.
Four months later, using the wisdom I found here, my husband and I just signed papers on our first investment house. The...
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I am currently approved for a commercial loan that is amortized over 20 years, but with a 5 year term. At the end of the 5 years, are these typically "refinanceable"? Or should I be aggressively trying to pay this dow...
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My partner and I started looking into REI since Q4, 2015. We knew it was a hard year to get in for a newbie investor but we didn't give up. We started out by listening to the BP pod casts on 1 of our longest road trip...
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I'm pretty disappointed you can't get a mortgage with an IRA...according to my research. I'd like to use the IRA and get 5 or 6 properties and not just pay all cash for one property.
Any tips on how to get around no...