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This is my first time here =) I am just getting started in real estate, with the end goal of replacing and exceeding my current salaried job. I have 80k in cash saved and do not know which avenue to take...I h...
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Hi all,Just last week, a plumber completed sewer line replacements in each unit of my duplex. The cast iron was rusted through causing backups, so an insurance claim was filed, and 2 new PVC lines were installed unde...
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I'm seeking feedback for how it turned out for investors who invested long-term in small town, lower income tertiary cities, such as former mining towns and manufacturing areas (C-D class). These areas tend to have fe...
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Would love this community's insight. Is it common practice for property managers to forward paid receipts to owners or not? My current property manager doesn't instead sending a monthly ledger with the month's payment...
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Hi All:I've been let down buy 3 lenders now and it just dawned on me - let me check in with the bigger pockets community.In short, I have two investment properties with interest rates at 7.8% that I have been trying t...
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Hello all,I recently closed on my first rental property last November and things are going well with it. Of course, now that I have my primary and one rental property, my next goal is to start scaling. I'm trying to f...
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Hello, I was wondering what’s a good amount of money to have on hand to use as a down payment to start my investing journey. I can’t house hack and am looking towards SFR, either a brrrr or turnkey. Depending on how m...
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For those of you who are flipping on a large scale, what (if any) cloud managed project management software do you use and why? I'm thinking of keeping track of all the small and large tasks involved in multiple reha...
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So I get a call from the seller and go to the property and contract it. I get word back from the title company that someone had filed an affidavit of contract about a year ago. I discuss this with the seller and he sa...
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What do mortgage brokers charge. We had a broker who wanted us to sign a contract for acommercial loan and his fee was 1% of the loan. ($4,600) This seems outrages to us.