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I'm weighing my options for buy and hold strategies and was hoping people with experience could chime in. I'm interested in learning more about Vacation rentals, what sites work the best, horror stories, success stor...
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So there is an apartment building with about 25 units in it. I know the owner, she actually watched me grow up. She is getting too old to keep the building. So I presented to my significant other to possibly buy the ...
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I bought a duplex for 128k when the market suggested 140k. I have an amazing renter for 6 more months. Before I stopped thinking about real estate investing and starting applying action, I made some decisions I may ha...
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For the past several months, I have been setting up and implementing my marketing programs. They include sending yellow letters to pre-foreclosures in areas I like, mailing postcards to my farm areas, and sendi...
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Hello all. I am asking this question for my sister as both her and I are totally unfamiliar with short-term rentals. She owns a fourplex in Los Angeles which are fully rented out to long-term tenants (1850/mth each ...
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I loved the "you know you're an investor when" post from @Brandon Turner and I think it's time to revive it for the women of BP. A recent podcast talked about how hard it was for them to get female interviewees - whi...
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First time landlord here, so obviously I need to do better pre-screening. What I'm wondering is what I should do now. Tenants have been in only for four months, and have paid late two of those times. I don't think it'...
I'm in the process of buying a small, boutique motel (7 rooms in the motel and 12 stand-alone, seasonal cabins) that's on 3-acres. There is also a house onsite that the current owners live in and manage the business f...
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I have heard a lot of posts about how to buy real estate with no money down, low down, first time buyer program, etc. All these paths are possible, but they are financial decisions that you are now just realizing when...
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I have been working on setting up a modest vacation rental in the Portland metro area. In the past, friends of mine were raving about VRBO, telling me it really does work- and they had a reasonable fee structure. But ...