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7 January 2025 | 5 replies
I personally learned I enjoy local investing in residential properties.
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30 January 2025 | 7 replies
We realized the screws we were using were too small for the door hinge and we just had to finish that small bottom corner.1/26/25 - We went to Lowes and picked up some 1 1/2 inch door hinge screws (sound in the screw/nail section) and went back to the rental.
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28 January 2025 | 16 replies
Quote from @Agatha Simmons: I’ve camped out on this forum and on Reddit and realize how many newbie mistakes I’ve made but hear me out.
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3 February 2025 | 114 replies
And that is really saying something because I invested a tremendous amount of myself and time into my small business and learning to play guitar and my personal recovery and growth as a person. Real
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23 January 2025 | 8 replies
Ultimately responsibly using leverage (both equity and debt), implementing systems and buying good assets with realizable equity is how you scale while operating a sustainable real estate business.
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3 February 2025 | 79 replies
Appreciation is only a THEORY until a person SELLS, be it gain or loss.
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16 January 2025 | 7 replies
If you and another person own a piece of real estate as tenants in common then you both own real estate.
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12 January 2025 | 11 replies
Hello. I just put my house for rent but I’m not sure where to do background check and what exactly look for when doing them. Can you please share what you use it would be great. Thank you.
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19 January 2025 | 18 replies
If you want to think about it as a math problem, it’s all about where you put your time to maximize returns while also factoring in what you enjoy doing.Picking the MarketI’m the kind of person who gets analysis paralysis.
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27 January 2025 | 9 replies
They do require that person to have no assets, so a house in her name could be problematic.