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25 February 2019 | 62 replies
It's like a pyramid of debt that will crumble because the excess expenses on one of those large units may not be able to be covered by the rest of the portfolio.
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24 March 2020 | 2 replies
We will all have learned a lot of new skills by the end of this.Speaking of the importance of TP, a client shared a listing photo showing a pyramid of TP stacked artistically on the coffee table with the quote "TP comes with the house!"
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11 January 2015 | 3 replies
Their first purchase became the base for a pyramid of properties bought by constantly remortgaging and using equity from rising values to put down a deposit on yet another house.Their wealth ballooned to more than £100m but apart from a £2m-plus home outside Maidstone and eccentric Burberry suits, their main extravagance was a much derided stable of racehorses.Wilson readily admits that his property empire is heavily mortgaged, but says the loans work out at 61% of the value of the properties.
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28 November 2022 | 29 replies
However now I'm hearing stories that they may be a scam or some type of pyramid scheme.
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4 July 2016 | 19 replies
There are folks, a couple here on BP, who are adamant the organisation is the best path to a future in real estate investing and there are many here who see it as multi-level marketing scheme designed to make a few at the top of the pyramid wealthy at the expense of those recruited at the entry level.
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10 February 2016 | 4 replies
My end goal is to eventually pyramid up so that after my first year I can eventually sell and purchase a bigger property so on and so forth.
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27 August 2015 | 22 replies
If I'm going to work that hard and put in that many hours, I'm going to focus on real estate, not on making someone at the top of a "pyramid scheme" more wealthy.We know it would be a lot easier if we had capital to start with.
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5 May 2020 | 1 reply
It’s generally visualized as a pyramid or tall rectangle categorized by risk.
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15 November 2017 | 7 replies
With out him going into too much detail form what I gathered its some kind of educational pyramid scheme.
28 November 2017 | 7 replies
The secrecy of bitcoin makes it perfect for market manipulation and pyramid schemes.I think it should be rebranded from Bitcoin to Bubblecoin.