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22 December 2024 | 2 replies
I'm Apa (25) and I work in Orange County, California as a Research Engineer.
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19 January 2025 | 61 replies
Most of my renters are nurses, engineers, and tax payer funded employees (Government workers).
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23 December 2024 | 5 replies
A nearby city with a lot of highly paid engineers.
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28 December 2024 | 26 replies
To scientists and engineers, it is called: "WTF is wrong with you, the data is right in front of you".Allow me to demonstrate what YOU stand for.
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4 January 2025 | 28 replies
Would like to do more ponds on our Country Subdivision projects here in Iowa, but the Corp of Engineers governs these, and this same pond would have cost $80,000 to $120,000 for the "Right to build"; not to actually build here.
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6 January 2025 | 57 replies
Per trading desk they said "yeah, crazy right, a lot of people are gonna get caught sleeping on this one", as in when market has that cycle it will get "interesting" when the forced sells occur accelerating the drop, that those in the know have algorithms built and set to grab the bottom.
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31 January 2025 | 170 replies
For the Houston Fourplex decks vs the Botanica Southpark renders - they are the same in terms of layout because they are the same programmatic model, which has been carefully value-engineered, and is being built in different markets in Texas.
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30 December 2024 | 89 replies
Quote from @Fakaradin Floyd: Hey everyone, I'm a 24 year old Software engineer that's always wanted to get into real estate, I graduated college about a year and a half ago and wanted to hit the ground running when graduated.
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16 December 2024 | 5 replies
As best as I can tell on both sites, the algorithm looks something like this:Cheapest price>least restrictions (cancellation, # of days minimum, etc)>Premier/Super host>Review Scores>Most discounts (weekly, last minute, etc)>Regular revisions
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18 December 2024 | 12 replies
When those first (hopefully 5-star) reviews hit, will we get an algorithm bump?