Hi there! This is my first post but long time listener to the podcast. My wife and I are having a hard time deciding on whether to sell our home and take a massive tax hit. Or keep it and cashflow it. It is a single ...
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Hello, I'm Stuart. I'm a newbie to investing in real estate and I'm looking forward to learning more!Currently, I'm out-of-state attending a deaf/hard-of-hearing college as a late-30s non-traditional student. (I'm ve...
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Hi everyone,
I'm looking for a layman's explanation of how a 1031 exchange works. I did some searching in threads and many of the explanations are pretty complicated. Can someone post a simple step by step guide to t...
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I'm looking to buy my first rental property and I just got pre approved for a conventional loan for 100,000$ through a recommended broker in the area. Everywhere I look online I see interest rates ranging from 3% to 5...
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As I get prospective tenants emailing me, would you have them fill out credit and backround check before you would show them the property or after. My thought is if they don't qualify whats the point of wasting my ti...
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Sometimes investing out of state is the only way to get decent cashflow. I suppose a lot of out of state investors want to be hands off. Now, what happens if you have a property manager, but you would like to be more ...
I want to see if anyone has an opinion on what I should do. Quick background:Bought our house May 2020 for $185k, 6 bed 2 bath, near Kansas State. Put about $12-15k into it. Remodeled kitchen, both bathrooms, painted ...
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Hi,a little confused about the short term rental loophole. Seems i can use my paper losses on my STR against active income if my avg stays are less than 7 days and I pass the materially participation test. Here's my ...
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Hello everyone, my name is Johnny I live outside of the Orlando area and its been a long dream of mine to get into real estate investing for a long time now, it has taken me this long to start because I thought you di...
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I just read @Scott Trench's book Set for Life and loved it, as I feel it was written just for me :) I'd like to get started with a house hack, but am not sure if that would be the best investment given my current situ...