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Hello, BP Community! My name's Tom, and I hail from New Haven, CT. I'm a mid-life career changer, having started a dog training business after 30+ years in the restaurant industry. I'm laying out a challenge to myself...
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I always enjoy reading the passion, creativity and energy a lot of people have on here but I don't often read about the downside risk that is very real in REI. I was just curious - how many people do a risk management...
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Hey Everyone,I am under contract for a small self storage facility (36 Units). I've seen a lot of different self storage softwares out there such as, Sitelink, ESS, storedge, syrasoft etc. Currently I use Buildium for...
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Greetings:
First post. My name is Ulf Israelsson, Swedish born, physicist, interested in part time real estate investing - for now.
My interest is to buy and rent out for the long term SFR properties in that outlyin...
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Hello all!
I'm Kevin, 29 years old, active US military currently serving overseas (Germany). I'm due to return/PCS back to live in the good old US of A in May 2014 and I intend to get started in RE investing ...
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What is the easiest way to tell if a private lender is a fraud? I have one private lender who keeps contacting me about offering private loans. He says his name is Bryan Chambers from Chambers Financial located at Rat...
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Just curious. I was wondering how restaurants decided what areas to move to and how. And specifically how to attract restauranteurs (even chain ones) into an area.
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Hello BP community I'm just starting out on my journey and I am interested in investing in rental properties including vacation rentals. I have read "the book on rental property investing" and a few other books as wel...
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Hey everyone. I am analyzing a deal & I'm nervous that I may be missing something just from inexperience and could use input from some seasoned pros.
The plan:
Building 1 is a duplex currently rented. Building 2...
I have been researching real estate for about five years. I have even spent a lot of money to get information on how to get started in real estate without using your own money. It was a "how to", that sent me a lot ...