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1 February 2025 | 56 replies
YUP anyone advocating this to the public is not doing the industry any favors to many bad apples and even if your the holier than though trainer etc etc.. the students are such that you cannot know who is going to be a bad apples and screw people.. having spent 40 years lending money to investors .. its the nicest ones up front that end up being bad apples.
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3 February 2025 | 114 replies
You will not get full honest reviews publically on any program.
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4 February 2025 | 17 replies
Deception and perception play a major negative role.
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30 January 2025 | 34 replies
If a company is performing poorly, they should allow to break up for the release.Failure to do these kind of things...results in bad publicity for the company like this post does.Thank you for sharing your experience.
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27 January 2025 | 56 replies
.-- The biggest indicator of turning public sentiment was just last month, in December, when voters in Woodland Park approved a ban on vacation rentals that also appears to NOT grandfather in existing licensed properties.
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15 January 2025 | 8 replies
You might check with your Self-Directed IRA Trust Company/Custodian, they might have a brokerage connection capability where you can setup a brokerage account tied to your IRA, then you can with that brokerage to invest in various public market investments, in some cases stocks, mutual funds, ETF's, treasuries, and CD's.
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6 February 2025 | 28 replies
If I was the buyer's broker, I would have checked myself to protect my client.If they had, then they would have found out it was not a three family.Its a valid point.In NM, our zoning / city doesn't post # of units publicly, only high density residential or low density.
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12 January 2025 | 28 replies
Try this link: Publication 5653 (6-2022)
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9 January 2025 | 18 replies
If you register but do not have a registered agent they can often serve you by publication, or perhaps by serving the Secretary of state or any of several ways that might result in you not knowing that you have been sued.
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30 January 2025 | 45 replies
I am sure I will be very publicly wrong, and you all can make fun of me in two years, when stocks double and real estate prices crash 20% from here, but I just don't know how you can watch this industry, this closely, for this long, and not be raring to go in the current environment.