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1 February 2023 | 4 replies
This can be a catastrophic event waiting to happen you and you thought you were doing the right thing by getting the coverage but guess what, you bought the wrong coverage!
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26 July 2019 | 101 replies
I have enough money to be able to hold during a catastrophic event for 6 months and really about 5 years unless its like a crazy 50% drop in rents or 50% vacancy or something insane lime that.
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12 April 2016 | 7 replies
"B" something catastrophically goes wrong.
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5 September 2021 | 29 replies
I believe it tends to give me a slightly lower return, because the sponsor is going to be more careful, and if there is a severe downturn will prevent me from taking catastrophic losses.
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30 January 2024 | 24 replies
I believe it tends to give me a slightly lower return, because the sponsor is going to be more careful, and if there is a severe downturn will prevent me from taking catastrophic losses.
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8 June 2018 | 78 replies
I had loans on properties all over the mid west at 60 to 65% LTVs and took big losses as the values dropped and everyone of those was a rental.. tenants stopped paying it happens.. so don't think for a minute if we have a catastrophe like the GFC that rentals or cash flow is immune.. some areas it was many areas it was not.. that's a fact.
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6 August 2018 | 3 replies
When there was logging in the forests (I'm not talking about clear cutting), removing the dead trees and underbrush, etc. there weren't so many catastrophic fires.
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12 February 2019 | 10 replies
As a result of a catastrophe, they may actually be considered a repair depending upon what was done and what the cost of said work was.
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27 July 2021 | 26 replies
Of course, the catch is that everyone always thinks that they are an above average investor, just as everyone thinks that they are an above average driver, even though this is a statistical impossibility ... but the wrecks involved in thinking you are an above average investor when you are not are far more catastrophic than they are with driving ...
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24 January 2018 | 152 replies
@Laith AliBy failing to carry medical insurance in the US you are making your personal risk of a catastrophic medical event a public risk.