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3 January 2025 | 14 replies
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30 December 2024 | 6 replies
As an agent, I personally would love to hear your thoughts on how the implementation of AI will affect agents system processes or how it already has, however I would love to hear about it's impact in all facets of real estate.Apologies if this is a repeat post, I haven't searched much on the forums for this yet.
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2 February 2025 | 20 replies
Its no different than a tiktok video on financial literacy gets not views but if its a person shaking their you know what or talking about spitting on something they become instantly famous...
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3 January 2025 | 1 reply
The best way to learn about how to really invest in real estate is to read books, listen to good podcasts, and pair that with going to in-person meetups so you can see people just like you, married with 3 kids, who are making it work for them.
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4 January 2025 | 11 replies
Although the percentage of the increase is large, the determinative factors are whether the resulting rent is so great as to shock the conscience of a reasonable person and was effected for the purpose of compelling the tenant to vacate."
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3 January 2025 | 2 replies
Some hotels actually have a condo like structure, where people can own the units, but perhaps are limited on their personal use to only a certain amount of the year - the rest of the year it is in the rental pool managed by the hotel.If numerous room owners stopped paying their bills, you could get tax liens on numerous separately owned units.Hotels are a tough business, an issue I also see come up with them often is that they require refreshes, expensive and relatively often - at least once every 10 years, if not more often.
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3 January 2025 | 12 replies
I don't know a single person who regrets starting out with a quad and house hacking.
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5 January 2025 | 2 replies
And then you can use that information to start to develop your own personal due diligence method: Crowdstreet.com, 1031 Crowdfunding, Akr7, Finresi etc.
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20 January 2025 | 22 replies
I have personally owned investment property (both long-term and short-term rentals) along the lakeshore.
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3 January 2025 | 11 replies
The loan does need to be secured by the property being improved if we are talking about a personal residence and personal itemized deductions on Schedule A.