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23 May 2019 | 24 replies
Milk the brokers for information - they can usually give you a good picture of different local submarkets and neighborhoods.
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13 January 2019 | 11 replies
Money Mustache has a good article about it.
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8 October 2018 | 21 replies
This will let them know that you intend to take care of the property and than you're not just milking it.
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28 November 2019 | 9 replies
So most will bandaid the property and keep milking it, until you can no more.There is an economic floor, below which the long term buy and hold model does not work anymore, and you want to be mindful of that.
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22 August 2022 | 10 replies
Quote from @Frank Jennings: Go to the grocery store and look at the milk.
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13 August 2018 | 19 replies
If its a lot lower that may mean the seller has been milking the property and you will have a lot of work to do.
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9 May 2018 | 7 replies
If you tell her the rents are below market, she may realize she's sitting on a cash cow and decide to milk it.
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15 February 2022 | 44 replies
He wrote a great book a long time ago and has spent the last 20 years shamelessly milking young investors through Rich Dad Education.
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20 February 2019 | 129 replies
Sounds like crying over spilt milk because he missed his opportunity to buy at a discount.