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Hello Everyone! My name is Chris Battilana and I am a 29 year old Commercial Heating Technician with aspirations of owning a large real estate portfolio by the age of 45. I plan on obtaining this through investing tim...
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Hi BP,I may have gotten started in some other areas but time for the Intro!I'm an accountant/finance person by trade. Came from consulting different types of business and head up an accounting dept at a manufacturing ...
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Hello fellow investors! My name is Tiffany Clay from Indianapolis, IN and I am an infant in this business. I have a background in sales, customer service, public speaking and teaching, which is my favorite! Why Real E...
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When lending private money is there a downside to having your own name on the recorded documents? I'm wondering if I should create a trust with me as the beneficiary to provide a level of anonymity. Although I'm not s...
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Hey everyone! My name is Dan and I'm just starting out in the rental gig. I work full time as a furniture store manager and I've decided to invest in real estate for my retirement. I want to be earning at least 5k a m...
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I'm working on 2 houses that due to unforseen circumstances I will need $10k more for each house.In your experience if I reach out to my hard money lender can they increase the rehab amount on the loan? For some reaso...
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Hi,
I have signed my lease and unfortunately I need to travel immediately and wouldn't be back before Jan.
I asked my landlord if I can start my lease after and she said she'd find someone else.
She asked me to...
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Hey folks! I had a Self Storage facility in Missouri under contract in 2020, but had to back out of the deal right before closing because of bad survey issues. I was new to real estate investing at the time and spen...
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I just received one of my rent payments from someone I don't know on behalf of the tenant. The amount is correct and the rent is current. Would anyone take issue with this?
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Hi Everyone!
Had a question on thoughts on if it makes some sense to do a Heloc to leverage some dollars for an additional rental property purchase?
I have about $200k in equity in my primary residence and am wantin...