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Hi BP Nation! I hope you all are having a great week. I apologize in advance if this question was already asked. My father-in-law recently retired and relocated back to the Caribbean this past February. He rented out ...
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Hello, I’m new to real estate investing and I’m looking to make my first purchase sometime at the beginning of the new year coming up. Im pretty self educated and have read loads of forums and books and watched hours ...
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Hi all -- I'm trying to build out some kind of cash flow projection formula for analyzing properties. I'm looking in Grand Rapids/Holland/Muskegon/Kalamazoo MI.
For simplicity's sake, assume a $100K property renting ...
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Hey BP fam,I'm John Golden a new investor from Chesapeake, Va. Moved down here to Alabama back in 2012 to attend Tuskegee University. Never knew or cared about real estate from the start. I joined the Army national gu...
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What form of real estate was your first deal? Why? And how did you reach your goal? Please share with me.
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Some general questions about house hacking:
1. Tax question- If a person purchases home 1 as an owner-occupied personal residence house hack and then moves out the next year and purchases another owner-occupied resid...
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Hey BP,I am considering buying a home at auction. The home is currently occupied by the previous owner or a tenant not really sure. I was wondering what the process is like to evict the current tenant/owner if I was t...
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Not nearly as extreme as Vancouver BC, a 2.5 hour to the north in Canada but still...its to the point of unaffordable for your average family. I once remember looking at a fixer on top of queen ann hill a house that w...
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I have an investment property in Santa Rosa, CA that I bought in 2009. Loan on the property is for 112k, comps support that it's worth 355k. I did live in it, but it's been a rental for over 3 years and I'm outside th...
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Good Evening!I wanted to start a thread for active duty and retired investors. How did everyone start and how did everyone conduct their investing while in the military, during training, overseas, etc. I have about a ...