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I rarely start a thread, but today I had an experience that I just have to share.
A year ago, I thought I'd hit the jackpot. A single mom with two teenagers (15 &16) moved into one of my rentals. She had two ot...
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I currently own 3 single family properties which I rent out. I am in the process of trying to secure more. I have a simple DBA. I am thinking about forming an LLC to provide myself some protections. At the same time,...
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If the inspection goes well tomorrow I will be buying a property from a wholesaler(cool person) and I wanted to know if I should get title insurance. I'm buying the property cash and will most likely be putting a mor...
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I need to lower my rental income for this year due to some other income coming in.I know I can prepay certain expenses at the end of the year since I do cash based accounting. Now I am wondering if would work to have ...
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Like the title says, how much do you pay your private lenders? I have seen that 8% - 15% seems like the average.
Now another question - is that 8-15% on the money they lend you or of your final profit?
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