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Hey everyone, my boyfriend and I recently got into real estate investing. We bought our first primary residence near Nashville, TN in 2021 with a conventional 5% down loan which is currently a furnished rental. We bou...
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I have a real estate investor friend who needs advice. He has an SFR rental property and discovered after the most recent tenants vacated, that the property was nearly destroyed. Bid for repairs came back at $10K.
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Hi everyone! My name is Anders. I'm living in San Diego and like a lot of California city-dwellers, it doesn't look like it makes sense for me to buy a house here. I like Cincinnati and the Northern Kentucky area as a...
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Hello BP community,What are others doing in order to inforce timelines with subcontractors? You think cleaning up after your work is done would be a no brainer but half the time i find myself explaining to pick up aft...
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Have been writing multiple offers on mostly reo properties and still have not gotten one accepted. I am not even trying to hit a homerun, but they must pass the realistic 70% rule. I am paying cash but that doesn't se...
Hello. I come to real estate by a very tortured path.I graduated from college with a BS in physics in 1980 (yea, I am that old). After not being able to find a job, I went running back to the safe haven of academia ...
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Hey BP,Do you know of any HELOC lenders that lend on investment properties? Preferably interest only and above 80% LTV. While the market is stalling a little my wife and I are considering the "Shred Method" to pay off...
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Hi all,
I am moving out of my current rental apartment in order to pursue a house hack. My landlord worked with me to help re-rent my current lease so that I would be free to go and buy a house. She was impressed wit...
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I own 7 properties (8 doors) in southwest Pennsylvania free and clear. I cash flow about 7k a month after expenses. These are in C locations but my places are on the nicer end of what is available in those locations...
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Hi all HELOC experts :)We are in the process of getting a HELOC for our primary, to be used as cash-equivalent to fund investments. After shopping, we opted for one bank however they just came back to us with the prop...