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I'm new to the real estate, in the military and just purchased my first home (3bd/2ba/2car garage) with the VA loan on Oahu for a little over 500k and it's estimated rent is $2,400/mo. I understand this is not sustain...
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I have two questions...I read somewhere that you pay taxes when you do a flip but not Capital Gains tax if your intention was to flip... can someone explain? Here's somethings we are looking at.... we have held a hou...
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Hello Fellow BP Members,I just wanted your input on whether or not I should get my real estate license. I live in Ohio and I know some states are different than others.But instead of just asking for others input, I wa...
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Hi Everyone. I've been a member of Bigger Pockets for months now but just started diving into this site a bit more recently... What a great resource for investors! I've been at it for about 10 years now. I formed a...
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Hello,May I get some suggestions regarding which book I should thoroughly pick up and read and understand first? I plan to read both of them as I have already purchased them both but unsure which one to read first.Fir...
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Hi all,
Thanks for making this great site. What a great community. Although I'll be trying to start my investing in Ontario, Canada, I can't help hanging around this site, because it has so much great general infor...
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Hi,I am a relatively new investor from Portland OR (I have one condo bought in 2012 which is doing ok now) looking to pick up a property using conventional lending (20-25% down, 30-year fixed rate mortgage) to buy and...
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Hey,
I am a new member from Upstate SC and am currently a junior at the University of South Carolina. I'm majoring in Finance and minoring in Economics (I will be taking some real estate and real estate inves...
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Hello BiggerPockets!My name is Kevin Tornes. I was born in beautiful Colorado Springs, CO, but moved when I was very young because my father was in the Navy at the time. My family moved across the US over the next 10 ...