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11 June 2024 | 6 replies
Up until the trustee sale (foreclosure auction), the home is still owned and fully controlled by the home owner.I’m assuming you’re going to be looking at off-market properties (since loan status isn’t something they advertise on the MLS so you likely wouldn’t even know if it was in default if it’s a listed property).So, in that case, you’d just negotiate a purchase agreement with the home owner and then take the contract to your local escrow/title company to open escrow.
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16 June 2024 | 40 replies
I had 5 mil in escrow for a tape for 60 days that never showed up it was an Indy mac tape.. so I finally gave up used the money to make new loans that I could control..
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11 June 2024 | 0 replies
Wall Street often doesn't highlight these options because they make money from the fees on traditional investments, but with a Self-Directed IRA or Self-Directed 401(k), people can take control of your retirement savings and invest directly into real assets if they wish.Here’s how it works:1.
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12 June 2024 | 14 replies
I grew up in a small tourist town on the north coast of England (UK), and so I am very aware of the dangers of not controlling numbers of STR's in an area.
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12 June 2024 | 4 replies
but then we run into the "Socialism" idealists who think if we do anything that is Government related to address health care, then they, the Government is taking control of our country??
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10 June 2024 | 19 replies
Rent control on SFH.
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11 June 2024 | 4 replies
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11 June 2024 | 5 replies
There is something called a Pledge Of Equity that essentially says that you and your brother can seize control of your son's LLC and anything it owns - hence the house.
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12 June 2024 | 20 replies
Any time someone is putting the blame squarely on something outside of their control and it's a multiple time thing, they are missing something in the buy/eval process.Either way, stick to leaving your own responses and not trying to get your numbers up by commenting on comments.
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13 June 2024 | 20 replies
I would not want anything to ever happen to the seller's credit that I can't control.