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Hi everybody!I want to get started in real estate and believe I know how I want to start, but want to make sure all my i’s are dotted and t’s crossed. I just started getting my military pension which more than covers ...
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Real estate guys recently had a podcast that was pretty interesting about targeting the retiring baby boomer demographics: http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?http://tra...The long story short, they have homes, an...
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Sorry about the long post. I think it is pretty cool though. I had an amazing portfolio going for almost 17 years and got hurt very deeply in the world-wide crash a few years back. It took a deep toll on me. I went...
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I’m currently in the Army and looking to start out real estate investing near Fort Lewis-McChord in Washington. I’ve focused in on the Tacoma market and plan on using my VA loan to purchase a home for house-hacking wh...
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I'm new to REI and targeting either two fourplexes or one small apartment building out of state as my first buy and hold properties? Is a 6-8 unit property better to help me scale and grow the business faster to event...
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Hey BP!
I'm looking into Ohio for my next multifamily rental property. It's cheaper than PHX, but I'm concerned about taxes. It looks like property tax alone can take $100/mo off my cash flow compared to a more frien...
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My mom is handling her mother's estate which includes a lot with an old trailer in Cle Elum, Washington. She has an offer on the property but the buyer wants the estate to carry the contract. We are going to give...
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How often do you write an offer for a home that you have not seen in person? Do you always just lowball hoping to find a seller that will take the bite? How often does that actually work and how low the offer was? Was...
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Some of you may know me from threads that I have started or from posts that I have made or from a handful of podcasts that I have been on (which I have to give credit to BiggerPockets for being the first and getting t...
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If I had to do it all over again, I would have gotten an FHA loan for a 4plex in the early 2000s instead of buying a SFR with a 95% loan. I thought I was smart because I bought the house expecting to turn it into a re...