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22 November 2024 | 5 replies
To avoid going through the same poor experience, keep reading.Even if someone gives you a referral here, do NOT make the mistake of assuming that the PMC will meet your expectations, just because they met the expectations of the referral source.In our experience, the #1 mistake owners make when selecting a Property Management Company (PMC) is ASSUMING instead of CONFIRMING.It's often a case of not doing enough research, as they don't know what they don't know!
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28 November 2024 | 10 replies
If you apply Class A assumptions to a Class B or C purchase, your expectations won’t be met and it may be a financial disaster.If you buy/renovate a Class A property in Class D area, what quality of tenant will you get?
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27 November 2024 | 8 replies
Yes, you do get income on the other side, but the prices have bumped up so with interest rates and less inventory to buy, the net income is much less than a few years ago.You can still do it, you just have to factor that in and expect negative cash flow while you live there and then see how good it will be when you leave in a year and do it again.
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26 November 2024 | 46 replies
Our society no longer views elderly as valuable contributors to society because everyone is expected to retire at 65 and wither away in a corner somewhere.
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27 November 2024 | 10 replies
I expect a change in the White House and a better economy by summer 2025.
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25 November 2024 | 13 replies
Costs may disqualify the opportunity even though in theory it can be converted.I believe its important to set expectations and if this is an 8 bedroom RSA5 home just as an example you very well could be looking at a building that's obsolete and again even if it is RM1, depending on the costs of the conversion, still potentially obsolete.
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9 December 2024 | 166 replies
For example, even if I liquidated by bitcoin just a month ago, it would have lost 50% of its value.I understand this is not easy, but this is the creative financing forum so trying to think creatively here =) If you expect the gains to continue, why get out of Bitcoin?
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27 November 2024 | 18 replies
I really learned a lot (this was my expectation).
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27 November 2024 | 26 replies
If the internet service goes out during a storm for 3 days will they also realistically expect you to pay them?
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26 November 2024 | 7 replies
@Craig Curelop is a great resource to assist with this as he is in Denver and wrote the book on house hacking for BP.You are a little numbers heavy vs. expectations meaning that it seems like you are really counting on these numbers to work and they could be tight which can be scary for a first property.