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Hey Bigger Pockets community!It's Argel here, and I had just invested the first 10 years of my entrepreneurial career starting high risk ventures in the tech and finance industries and to spare the details, exposed my...
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Hey BP Community,We got our first wholesale deal and now are scrambling to find out what to do next. Can anyone here give us any advice as far as where we should go after finding our first deal and how to close the sa...
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Hey BP community. I come to you with a predicament that I'm hoping to get some outside perspective on. I'm a structural engineer with zero passion for my current career path. The only reason I studied engineering was ...
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Hi all,A little background - (skip to the tldr at the bottom if you get bored) I'm mainly a buy and hold index fund investor. While I'm certainly no finance major, everything I've read about investing has led me to ke...
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As an experienced real estate investor and now also a private lender, I often get asked the question: "If I am a newbie and lenders don't want to lend to newbies, how can I get money for my first deal?"
Looki...
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Renters shouldn't be allowed to be Realtors. Owning a home should be a requirement for Realtors.Change my mind freaks.
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So, I'm still learning the ropes and not ready to jump in to actual investing just yet, but I just wanted to throw my plan out there and see what people thought of it (especially Kansas City folk). Obviously the main ...
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Hey Everyone -
I was just reading a new member introduction from @Howard Scarrott , where he mentioned the challenges of investing while working full-time and I thought I'd solicit advice from the rest of o...
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As the title states; How can the credibility and reliability of a syndicator be judged? What assurances does an investor have that the general partner won't "take the money and run"?Trying to avoid a Madoff ponzi sch...
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Hi all! I created this thread as a spin-off from this other thread:
We Loaned on a Stolen House
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I am trying to understand the differences about closing on a property, and particula...