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Hi all!I'm new to the forum. I'm a 24 year old from Massachusetts. I work as an analyst at an IT company and am thinking about buying my first three family home. The one i am currently looking at has two 2 bedroom uni...
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Hi Everyone,I'm hoping to get some opinions in regards to financial planners. As RE investors what are you looking for in a good Planner? What skills would they need to bring to the table or what problems could they...
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Good morning! Quick question: when did you know to take the plunge to go all in with your real estate investing from your normal job? Thank you,Grant
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Hi BP,I'm looking for some input regarding refinancing one of my rentals.Background, I have 2 investment properties, one owned in my name and one owned in an entity. The personally owned property has a HELOC against i...
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Writing this post to get into some nitty gritty details that I can't find elsewhere on the forums:First time investor! Woo!Knowledge, hustle, money. Those words were so subliminally heard in a number of BP podcasts, l...
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I think we can all agree that Covid-19 had been trying for all of us personally, as well as professionally. As we also know, Black Swan events like this can also force us to change the way we do things, and (spoiler a...
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Hey everyone! I'm brand new to the site and to investing in real estate. I'm in my mid- 30's own a home and have some cash saved up. Only debt I have is our mortgage. Looking to get into purchasing a rental property a...
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I have a decade and a half of experience working for companies as a carpenter and running work. I always did side work for other people. I built a house for myself and got featured in philly magazine, and then got hon...
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I'm ready to invest in some small multi-family units with two of my brothers. We have been discussing the upside potential of shared initial investment costs. We have discussed less about the potential pitfalls and he...
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I have cash sitting in a tax deferred IRA account. I am looking for alternative tax strategies to use in investing these funds for real estate investing. I realize by taking a cash distribution it would be considere...