New guy here looking to get into my first rental and a thought popped into my mind that I have no answer for.
The house I am looking at is $110,000. I am planning on using 20k to update the house. When I get a mort...
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Economic Update
(August 3-7, 2020)
It’s 2020; a crazy C-R-A-Z-Y year. We are in the land ...
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I am wondering what is a typical budget for a live-in flip. I am planning on buying a primary residence that I can get as a decent fixer-upper. It can be move-in ready and could use some TLC to increase the value of t...
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Can somebody @Ann Bellamy please explain why hard money lenders only lend to business entities and not people? I'd specifically like to hear about any Massachusetts laws/regulations. Thank you.
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Looking to connect with some Storage Unit Investors and glean from them!
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Background & Context
Today's New York Times reports on a new publication, Appraised. The publication argues, based on recently released appraisal data-sets, that current day appraisal processes bake the results...
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Welcome to my weekly take, A Skeptical Real Estate Dude, coming at you live from Nashville, TN. Every week I write a brief, hopefully insightful, dive into real estate and financial markets, for all you tubular dudes ...
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So I posted the other day asking if I could get around passive income on my rental properties so I could contribute to my retirement account. Post here: https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/51/topics/1183339-contr... ...
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Hey y'all. Long time BP member here and I figured it was time while I had a slow day to detail my story.Back in 2016 I was finishing up my Masters in Education at Texas A&M while dating a woman long distance and c...
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So i have a question that is probably a dumb one but Josh and Brandon say there is no such thing as a dumb question, so here it goes. I received a call from a motivated seller after marketing to Absentee owners. I neg...