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Hi All,I’ve been in the waterpoofing business for over 12 years and have been reading up a lot lately about REI. I live in Bay Area (Northern California) and planning on starting my real estate investment portfolio. C...
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Hello Everyone,Backstory:My wife and I up until recently have been buying and renovating homes and then selling after 2 years or so to avoide paying taxes on the gains. Well it looks like this last reno will be the l...
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Hello BP family, I am stuck between a rock and a hard place. I have no job at the moment with only $1000 in my savings account, fortunately my wife makes just enough to pay for our monthly expenses. So my question is,...
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What is everyone's opinion on Harry Dent? He points out that real estate has pretty consistently gone up over most of our life times because of the baby boomers, but now that they are down-sizing and dying off, real e...
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Hello All...
I am a Newbie wholesaler here in the Houston area...and I have yet to wholesale my first property. I have been doing this since Feb 2011 and I am really beginning to become discouraged. I have read book a...
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I am about to make a cash offer for a SFH, my realtor insist that I still have to put at least 10% down ( he wants 20%) I said " why do i have to put anything down when we will be closing in 10 days on an all cash dea...
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Hey everyone,
Just wanted to let everyone know about the newest podcast episode that just came out this morning. It's different from anything we've done yet for a few reasons:
For the first time, we b...
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So I have this "friend"...A buddy had invited me to an invitation only meeting. It was a very motivational gathering that left me wanting more. I like to consider myself a receptive type person but ------- this doesn'...
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Hi I know I post a lot on these forums but I really want to gain as much knowledge as possible. I have been in real estate for about 6 months now and have yet to make any real money. I have trouble figuring out what I...