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Good Saturday everyone! As I sit here in my Open House in between guests, I'm thinking about all of the negatives right now: high interest rates, high prices, and negative market sentiment. But to cheer myself up I’m ...
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A few active threads popped up on BP with the consensus being something like “hahahah Zillow lost a lot of money trying to flip houses…How dumb are they, lets all point and laugh’. Or lets make memes about them, becau...
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I bought a flip for 60k i sold it for 95k 5 months later the rehab and holding costs were 9k, where do i show the profit? on a schedule D? thanks, also My friend and I bought a property together, we rent it out, do we...
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Dear BP community,I would like to introduce myself. My name is Leo, I'm 24 years old and live in Mountain View, CA. Originally I'm from Germany but moved to Silicon Valley to work as a Software Engineer.About a year a...
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Hello, I’m new to real estate investing and was hoping some of you would share your thoughts on why it is better to invest in real estate over the stock market. So far, I’ve only invested in stocks and the idea of inv...
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If you had a million dollars and it was the only million you had sitting in a money market account drawing less than 1% per year how would you invest it?
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Most of the discussion on this forum seems to cater to the DIYers. I haven’t seen much discussion on routes for passive investors to make similar or comparable CoC, cash flow, and equity as regular active investors. I...
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Thanks for any advice! I noticed a small leak in the ceiling of my condo on January 26th. Contacted the property manager because bylaws state damage from a common element (the roof in this case) makes the HOA responsi...
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This is hypothetical because it is an exercise in electrical theory. No-one should actually do this because it is dangerous and could kill them or the poor lineman trying to restore power if they didn't understand the...
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Since 1998, there has been a 44% drop in Fortune 500 companies offering pensions; instead pushing their employees to manage their retirement themselves through a 401K or other management investment vehicle [Source: To...