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22 January 2025 | 8 replies
While not my main area of practice I represented a Brooklyn credit union lender, some buyers/sellers and a few landlords in real estate transactions and rent arrears cases.While we had successes and some failures along the way I ultimately concluded that I wanted to do something different with my life and cashed out of the business.
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11 January 2025 | 12 replies
Be careful not to place your identity in your age/success in RE.
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8 January 2025 | 9 replies
Wishing you both success on this new venture!"
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30 December 2024 | 819 replies
Regardless of the due diligence the buyer performed.
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5 January 2025 | 9 replies
@John Matthew Johnston 80% of the time, it's a thankless job:(You're never fast enough for complaining tenants, nor fast enough or cheap enough for owners.To have any chance of success, you have to be extremely organized, or every day starts with your hair on fire!
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2 January 2025 | 2 replies
We have a Chicago general contracting business, and handling the field operations is a ridiculously heavy lift.As far as finding customers I think you'll have some good success with gorillia marking at some of the local investor meetups.
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29 December 2024 | 23 replies
Success stories are happening every day, I have clients breaking record rents on house hack more so than ever.
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3 January 2025 | 9 replies
I can say from having taught classes on these loans that your contractor will be the biggest key to your success.
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28 December 2024 | 1 reply
I have personally witnessed the success of this approach.