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What is the deal with Detroit?
Every post I read is filled with negative opinions. Is Detroit similar to Washington DC a few years ago? Where locals knew the few bad streets to stay away from but the general populat...
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I always hear and read about how New Jersey is a tough place to invest but that is all that's mentioned. I live in NY and I'm looking to house hack in either Newark, Jersey City, or the Oranges. What makes these areas...
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If I have a property under contract and I am marketing it (craigslist, REIAs, etc), what's the best way to handle all the requests to see the property on the inside? After all, it's not my house yet, and my seller wil...
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I want to hear the story of some of your creative real estate purchases and I'll share one of my own. I hope it inspires newbies to get creative and not be held back by the cash on hand in their bank account.1) Found...
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Hello guys,I've been meaning to sign up for a couple years but never pulled the trigger until now so I can ask this question.I'm a real estate wholesaler/flipper and I'm looking to scale my business. One strategy I'm ...
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Why invest in real estate?After all, there are lots of things to invest in -- stocks, bonds, precious metals, collectibles. What makes real estate so attractive to you? Is it because it's tangible -- you can ride by...
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Most investors favor CF rather than equity build up.
The advice is get a mortgage as long as you can (30+years) so you can have a few more hundred dollars in CF.
This neglects the fact that you pay more...
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Investing involves risks and rewards – and usually the higher the risk, the greater the potential for significant gains and losses of invested equity. Intuitively, we understand that it’s necessary to take more invest...
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Hello everyone I hope all of you are having a wonderful Sunday. Just a lil about myself, I am a recent graduate (October 2017), live in New York City but move from Massachusetts where I go to school to SoCal Californi...
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I've been flagged for "mocking", when someone asked about a course that they were CONSIDERING buying, I told them I thought it was a waste of money. Another poster on that thread criticized me as they had purchased th...