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I have always been a contrarian (not a speller)but the danger is to take a position too early.
While my Texas friends are raking in the money in their market they are taking that market out of my reach
Just as in...
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Hello BP!Today I closed on my first buy and hold rowhome in Baltimore City. It's my first real estate deal ever - and seeing as how I only have the faintest idea of what happens next, I figured my journey of figuring ...
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Tenant has requested permission to get a chicken coop. My initial thought is no... anyone have experience with this? Just seems dirty and unnecessary. This is in a duplex with a good size back yard. Thanks!
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Hey all! My wife and I are preparing to start our real estate investing journey in the next year. We live in a super high cost of housing area in NW Montana so we are thinking we need to be looking at long-distance in...
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Hi EveryoneAfter reading through many excellent posts, include the "Diary of a New Construction Project" by @J Scott and @Joshua Dorkin, I thought I might add our voice here on BP. I am proposing to track the entire l...
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I just wrapped up a busy (and cold!) week in Owings Mills (outside of Baltimore), where I was rehabbing my first rental property. Being my first real estate purchase ever, it was exciting and intimidating to go throug...
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This is very broad so I just looking for some past experiences one may have had, I'm 25 years old and currently hold a solid union job in western PA about an hour north of Pittsburgh. The city I'm in is a depressed ar...
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My husband and I would like to buy our first OOS property and want to buy in Cleveland. We would like to buy a duplex in a Class B area so that it is easy to manage remotely with a property management company. What ar...
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In December 2023, the Boise City Council approved a vast rezone of almost all land types across the city. This increased the average density by 50% and opened up opportunities for multifamily and ADU to be built on al...
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Hello BP members! I am based out in California and looking to invest in the Indianapolis area. Relatively a newbie but been lurking around BP for a couple of years now ingesting all the amazing contents and reading on...