24 November 2019 | 15 replies
You can get a new steel tub at home depot for $300 (don't get the fiberglass tubs, they crack under the weight of fat Americans) If you are going to remodel the whole bathroom my vote would just be to put in a new tub.
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13 October 2019 | 69 replies
If you get, say, 10 properties before you're 30, and each property gets a rental income of $1000/month before PITI and other expenses, when you're 60, you'll no longer have Principle or interest, and can just collect fat checks.
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11 May 2020 | 53 replies
The saying "Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered" really applies here; I offered a deal on a place and came up to my maximum all-in, and they wouldn't come down $2500 to make the deal.
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27 March 2019 | 7 replies
Labor costs are huge.If I don't see a big fat margin of 30+% then I am not going to touch it on a flip property.
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18 February 2019 | 21 replies
Someone mentioned that it may be time to start cutting off the fat and focusing on the ones that are more promising, and coming back to the others later.
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16 February 2019 | 9 replies
So charge a big fat fee for your trouble in advance.
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20 February 2019 | 14 replies
You’ll find that being an agent is a job for them which is for most but they only see the big fat check in the front end.
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27 February 2019 | 10 replies
Steve I have one of eachMy daughter got a 4 year degree from Davis and is now semi senior management at Intel knocking down some fat checks.My son is a GC and is building 3 homes for me right now.. but he cut his teeth doing small rehabs for us.. then trained himself to be one heck of a finish carpenter to now he can build them as the GC from ground up.
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4 January 2022 | 109 replies
I just think of that old idiom: pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered.
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24 February 2019 | 4 replies
Thanks Jon, I actually fat fingered that 10% down so there's a correction I need to make.