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Please share your "Why?"
Here's mine: Personally, I believe in real estate investing because I don't believe in job security.
This has been my experience...I have worked since I was 15 years old, mostly for small b...
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Real estate investors ❗🫵🏘️🏠🏞️WHY❓..... are you relying on banks for funding your deals when whole life insurance offers the same function but with (many) MORE benefits, both short and long term? 🤔💡**Access to Cash Val...
I am trying to do initial filtering with 1% rule or test in Texas and virtually nothing meets it. Anyone else discovering this as well.. how are you buying investment properties right now especially with current inter...
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So here's a little background on my situation. Just wanted to get some input from you guys on how one should handle this particular situation. I purchased my first rental property, a bank owned townhouse approx. 1 yea...
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I did a post about my first rental purchase here (https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/223/topics/67...) which took place last month. During the time of acquiring the rental property I also came across an opportunity ...
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Hello,
A little backstory on my situation. I inherited a fully paid off single family rental property in 2019. At that time, we decided to leave it as is and continue to rent to the long term tenant. He passed last m...
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What do you do with the proceeds from sales when your done with property rentals? It’s time. We are on the way to retirement. We own several properties and are tired. We have sold all but two. One just hit the market ...
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Let's not be coy, we overpaid for this lot, but we knew it going in this time...which is a refreshing change for us. We bought this lot as a marginal deal thinking that if all went well we'd be lucky to make $30k and,...
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I am purchasing a 4 unit apartment building in my hometown in Wyoming. I am using Guild Mortgage, from which I heard of on one of the podcasts, and we have a branch in my town. I was going to purchase this property wi...
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I have heard of the technique of avoiding potential FC problems by having a borrower essential pre-sign a Deed in Lieu which basically says, if the loan defaults this Deed in Lieu becomes enforceable.
Sounds too good...