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Hello BP Community,
I'd like to open up a bit and share the biggest fear my partners and I have as we get off the ground with our first SFH rental. This group has been so encouraging thus far, thank you all
We're te...
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How many of you have read a good portion of the health care bill?
I must admit, I coudn't sit and crack out 1000 or so pages of legal jargon at one sitting but, I did find a site with some bullet points, then I loc...
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Hello BP!
At the end of January, I closed on my first rental property for $5,000 total purchase price. The seller's husband had died recently and already moved into another house, so the property was a major ...
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I’m curious if anyone has experience acquiring properties by paying off someone else’s overdue property taxes. I read about this process and it sounds odd. Is it messy getting the people out? Is it a good idea?
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If not, then you probably have not visited Dubai. Wifey and I returned a week ago from a land tour and cruise in the Arabian Sea. We visited several locations in Oman and two of the seven emirates in the united Arab e...
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Hi guys! I hope this forum can help me out again. As I build my investment portfolio, I keep learning. I keep going thru the good and the bad.Situation: I hired a marketing manager, just part time. Great kid. College ...
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I can foresee a real estate path that allows me to leave my W2 job and the thing that keeps rattling around in my mind is that having a W2 makes getting a conventional loan possible/easier? For those that leave a trad...
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Economic Update
(Monday, March 15, 2021)
Almost exactly one year ago, March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared a “Pandemic” for the first time in a hundred years. Look at all that has happened in th...
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Hello All!I am still I'm the planning phase of my investing journey and have been think about investing in real estate for about a year now. I go serious and started researching about 6 months months ago. I found many...
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As a flipper, do you sell FSBO or use a seller's real estate agent? Does a good seller's agent raise the realistic selling price by the 3% it costs to hire them?I'm assuming you expect to pay the buyer's agent's 3%, o...