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All Forum Posts by: Account Closed

Account Closed has started 6 posts and replied 117 times.

Post: Please Critique My Site

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looking at your site you've crossed the line of acting as a real estate agent. especially since you use the term agent to identify yourself on the site. I may be wrong and will certainly be pounded on if i have made such a horrible error in my though process. but is worth a double check.

depends on the laws in your state. in some states there are laws regarding violent crimes and breaking leases.

this doesn't sound like an occasion that would qualify for that.

however if you read your lease close enough you'll find clauses about the landlords responsibilities in regards to keeping the place safe and if something else happens again due to the inaction of the landlord you would then have grounds to break. Like i said it just all depends on your lease and the laws in your state.

Post: Child Support Lien

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Bryan,

You are right they should go after the dead beat with any method they see fit. Lucky enough for the children that are victims to dead beat fathers/mothers one of the forms that may be sought is a lien against property that that person may hold. Whether it be a bank account or a home.

You see they have gone after this person as seen fit by the laws of the state and applied a lien to what is owed for child support.

If this is eating into your profit margin then you as any other investor/buyer have the right to make your own decision and suck it up and take it like a big boy, or walk away.

That's my peace

Post: Child Support Lien

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I'm with Jon on that one. Once that lien is paid its going to get disbursed to someone that needs it.

Post: How effective is Google Voice?

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My only problem with GV was the voicemail part. I am cool with the fact that it sends me a text of the voicemail from GV, however somehow people that call my direct line, their voicemails were coming accross my text when I didn't want them to. Still don't know why.

Post: Eviction Prior to taking possession..?

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There really isn't any other way than just knocking on the door at this point.

If you have some heavy hitting databases at your disposal or a friend that has more legal authority than you do to make contact and require identification from the occupants your kind of out of luck.

Or you could always open the mailbox to see who's name is on the mail, however this could possibly get you in trouble.

Post: Credit Monitoring Services

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I use creditkarma.com its free and allows me to update my score whenever. it might not be spot on but gives you the idea of what you need to do to improve it.

Post: Fighting to get deposit back

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I live in a rental now that a shelf in the fridge was broken when we moved in, so to say they don't explode on their own is kind of accusatory in this case. The OP has admitted to breaking the most expensive item on her list I don't see a reason at this point to accuse her of lying about breaking a shelf in a fridge. Especially since buying a replacement shelf can actually be pretty cheap depending on the fridge.

As a evidence guy my comment on this is who took it? how is it authenticated? Where did you find it, if it was taken "before" you moved in? Is there a date and time stamp on it?

I don't know about all states that require a walk through but I think we can agree that pretty much all states require an itemized list of charges made at move out (in my case the state requires it as long as rent is paid up). As well as having a time frame in which the landlord has to provide that itemization to the tenant, in most cases as far as I know 30 days (the longest I've personally seen is 60 days). And if not; once sued the tenant can receive not only the amount of their deposit, but another fee because of the landlords negligence or unwillingness or whatever you want to call it. Again this gets into different state tenant/landlord laws so your best looking this one up.

Post: Managing Contacts - Software Suggestions

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I like OutLook's Busines Contact Manager addon. It lets you keep track of calls made, and you can put together email campaigns and track direct mail campaigns as well

Post: Making Money With Non-Profits

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An important distinction between nonprofit and for-profit corporations is a forprofit
corporation has shareholders who own the corporation. No person, on the
other hand, owns the nonprofit corporation or has an interest in its property. A
nonprofit corporation may have members (which should not to be confused with
“members†as the term is used to refer to the owners of a limited liability company).

I pulled this from a state brochure about forming a non-profit.