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While reading this article about falling oil prices, I couldn't help but wonder what, if any, effect it would have on the real estate markets in energy-heavy local economies like Midland-Odessa and other West Texas ci...
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Hola!
I'm on the verge of purchasing my first RE investment (s). Keeping neighborhood classes out of the argument and risk aversion is irrelevant, what would YOU do? As far as finances and tax advantages go!?
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This could potentially be my first investment. I have been looking for multifamily properties for months now and to my knowledge and experience, nothing that fits my personal situation has come up yet but i do find my...
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My General Contractor that I am using on one of my rehabs has just sent me a change order for $5500 over our initial budget. In addition to that, he is telling me that I have to pay the tile guy, the electrician, and ...
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Good morning all,I currently have a triplex under a hard money loan because it did not meet the qualifications of a conventional mortgage and I needed to close quickly. I'm performing renovation on the property now, b...
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Hello together,I am really new to the real estate game and even though I listened to hours of podcasts, watchedm many videos and webinars and read a lot of books in the last two month... I often have difficulty act to...
Living in a new age of people working and learning from home!I recently listened to the BP Podcast episode 380 (Go check it out!), and they brought up an interesting point. Many people are working from home, so I'm cu...
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Please help! I worked really hard on my first multi family property and created a lot of equity but also was able to lock it down on a 30 year mortgage at 3.25% apr. I’m not sure if I should refi and enter the comme...
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I'm reading up on how to start doing Probate deals and I'm super stoked b/c there's a lot of good information on this site so thanks for that everyone. I did have one question though. I see a lot of the time that I ...
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...without leaving your office.
A fellow BP poster sent me this via email:
A quick question for you. In a post you mentioned that you can complete due dilligence on a property (minus the inspection) in about three h...