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5 May 2016 | 12 replies
Pretend you’re a hotel guest, and live in it yourself for a few nights, or have a friend stay and give you feedback like they are a whining hotel guest.
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13 December 2017 | 57 replies
As for your letters (more opinions are about to arrive) they are EXACTLY what I thought they would be; that regurgitated garbage everyone who pretends they are a marketer mails out thinking just because, "I have cash, I close quick, I buy As-Is, I, I, I do this, I do that, Look at me, me, me" people are going to call them up and throw deeds at them.No USP.
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20 June 2018 | 10 replies
Step 3:If you reallllly do not want to start wholesaling then you pretend that you are wholesaling and wholesale!
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15 June 2016 | 11 replies
If I pretend to be old Fannie, my answer would be something like:OK there buddy if you have all these cash-flow-positive rock solid rental properties making oodles and oodles of money, why is it so hard to pay some of the mortgages off?
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21 July 2007 | 7 replies
Don't pretend to help them, work with them to cope, but don't drill them with a fate they know long and true.
13 December 2008 | 92 replies
Pro-forma = pretend.
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15 February 2013 | 3 replies
I would almost pretend you aren't going to live there and there is a second tenant in there, and calculate everything on the income from both sides.
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2 April 2016 | 16 replies
Why would you pretend to be the property manager?
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22 March 2016 | 9 replies
Stand in the kitchen and pretend you're a mom (maybe you already are one).
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28 February 2014 | 11 replies
As a pretend investor, here is what I propose to you in return.