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Happy New Year to everyone! I recently closed on my first home purchase last November. It is a duplex in North Linden (growing C neighborhood) and I plan to cashout refi towards the end of the year. I am doing a full ...
I am a new investor in the Austin area, with property tax and interest rates. There is no cash flow here; unless you pay cash. Has anyone had success purchasing in the last 1.5 years with cash flow? Also, for those wh...
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Greetings;So . . my offer on a HUD house was accepted; used the 89% rule - Thanks. But just read the "successful HUD bidding strategies" and there's sooo much I didn't know. Using a 'not-so-HUD-experienced" broker (...
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I was wondering if I could get some opinions/suggestions on the best way to handle this situation. I have a duplex, that's fully renovated with ceramic tile throughout, so we have an open pet policy. Our first ten...
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Hey all, just bought my first home on Jul 24 2023. Have some questions about my roof.Noticed one morning when the sun hit my house just right that there were some small, but noticeable waves in my roof. Went up to the...
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I have a property just outside the Orlando area it’s a 4 bedroom 2.5 ba home holding approximately 70k in equity. Rental market is also extremely high and strong right now. The question is with so much equity do I sel...
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As a new investor looking at markets out-of-state, I found this blog post by @Scott Trench - 2016 Best and Worst REI Markets - to be super helpful. For those who haven’t read it, it provides a ranking of the attractiv...
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Hey everyone,
If you had hypothetically around 85,000 cash would you use hard money for your flips or just use cash to avoid the inspection costs with appraisal,points,and loan carrying costs??
I like the idea of ha...
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All this hype about Newark, NJ being the next gold mine in real estate wholesaling. Is this true all just full of hype. The city is RUN DOWN. All these wholesalers out here are Marketing/Pushing the same properties.. ...
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Hello,I was offered a 2 bedroom one bathroom rental house through my mother for 50-55K in florida. The home was built in 1956 and had a new roof put on it 2006. It has 918SQF of living space along with a 216SQF unfini...