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4 October 2024 | 5 replies
What Melanie is referring to here is stepped up basis rules that allow you to take the FMV at date of death or at 6 months after death.
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4 October 2024 | 22 replies
I’ve made rules and stick to them.
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5 October 2024 | 5 replies
You clearly don't know what your doing and should NOT, by the rules and codes of NAR, be a primary listing agent on anything right now.
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3 October 2024 | 23 replies
The rules aren’t often enforced, but I’d be more worried about getting caught up in a lawsuit with no errors and omissions insurance protection personally.
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7 October 2024 | 190 replies
The easy way around that is to follow the number 1 rule of holding, which is, do not leave your holdings on an exchange.
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2 October 2024 | 6 replies
I would advise you to look for a house instead of a condo.Condos have many fees, rules and can have expensive assessments for repairs and improvements that you will be forced to pay.Also Condos are a dime a dozen so the competition is fierce which drives the nightly rental rate way down.
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7 October 2024 | 35 replies
Eg, I told them around 20 days before about parking rules in my property and forwarded them the HOA rules, but they were still asking me for it 20 days after.
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4 October 2024 | 20 replies
(you can get the process started after 60 days) We have the 90 day season rule.
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2 October 2024 | 7 replies
We did not do our due diligence regarding the HOA rules and found out after purchasing that we are not allowed to do short term rentals.
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2 October 2024 | 3 replies
However, it is only day 1, so I will have to see how it goes and what other lessons I learn.I did also put together house rules, and go over everything with the tenant upon arrival (I did talk about any "rules" during the final interview to make sure we were both clear on expectations), and provided a written copy.