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Hi All... My name is Andrea and I live just north of Tampa. I am not totally new to real estate as my ex-husband and I had a number of rental homes while we were married. I have been an elementary school teacher for 2...
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2019 has been a difficult year with multiple vacancies, extensive make ready costs, and lots of deferred maintenance being addressed. It looks like I will show a large loss this year, and I still have about $30k total...
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Hello, completely new to this but, I have an idea of buying houses that are in preforeclosure. Will this work? If so what are somw of the pitfalls..
My idea:
1) contact Individuals who are in the foreclosure proces...
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Hi guys,I am planning to buy a REO foreclosure property on a resort-like location. The apartment is a 1b/1b that needs total restoration, estimated in around 20k. One thing that will affect my cash flow are the Home O...
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Hi guys,I am planning to buy a REO foreclosure property on a resort-like location. The apartment is a 1b/1b that needs total restoration, estimated in around 20k. One thing that will affect my cash flow are the Home O...
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If I help my landlord with simple maintenance, caulking, fixing can light fixtures, replacing an exhaust fan, can I deduct on my taxes the material costs and or labor since I performed this work for a rental property ...
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Investment Info:
Small multi-family (2-4 units) buy & hold investment.
Purchase price: $388,000
3 Units property with double lots.
What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?...
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As I’ve been growing my portfolio of SFRs, a thought dawned on me. A lot of BRRRR investors who got started over the last decade or so are probably cashflowing less than $200 per door and are leveraged to the hilt to ...
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Hey all, I am currently in the process of finishing "Set For Life" by Scott Trench and I have ready majority of "The Book of Rental Property Investing" by Brandon Turner. There is one core factor I am trying to figur...
Hello! I'm still a newbie and I'm starting REI by paying off my consumer debt. It's not a huge amount of debt, but I'm on a plan to have it all paid off in June. I'm trying to put myself in a better position when ap...