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After more than a year of religiously reading BP and checking up on recent posts more times a day than your typical social networker checks Twitter or Facebook, I have found the time to introduce myself.
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Hello my name is Ben Eiesland. I am from the westside of Portland. Country boy at heart. I am a Manufacturing Engineer in a nuclear products division. I am here to learn. I am interested mostly in buy and hold....
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I am currently living in SF and given where the RE market is here I am looking at out-of-town and to be clearer out-of-state deals. Given this I have been focused on more turnkey type properties but wondering if othe...
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Hey everyone,Does anyone have any experience installing solar panels on a rental property to offset the cost of electricity? I currently own a "house-hacked" duplex where my wife and I live on the first floor and the ...
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Hello all...new to the board, and hoping for some help.
My wife, two sons and I all live in a townhome in Maryland. We are starting to burst at the seams and would like to move to more property. My sister-in-law ow...
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I am an investor doing a round the nation trip in search of some RE deals that make sense. I am currently in Florida and I am stumped in many ways.
I own quite a bit of real estate and I am working on acquiring via ...
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Hello BP community,I need some help on structuring a deal. I am a California investor investing in the Texas region.I am in the works of purchasing my first BRRRR and my biggest problem is how we are going to finance/...
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We found a great, recently redone 4-plex in a location that our property manager says is ideal. The sale is as is and will be our first long-distance property that we will not see before placing an offer. We found out...
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Hello, I just closed on an 8 plex(2 4 units) in November with a partner. This is my first deal, and I love it so far. We have room on our lot to build another 4 plex-8 plex depending on the city and parking space. ...
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Just as a side note, I am also being a bit conservative with the numbers. Similar properties in the area have sold for 660,000. I'm sure the interest rate could be closer to 3%Rent could probably be closer to 1500 als...