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28 January 2025 | 11 replies
Quote from @Ericka Parrott: Hi Dylan, I live here in Atlanta.
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5 February 2025 | 17 replies
The institutional firms that do this type of lending (we deal with them every day) have to "securitize" the loans...meaning have their hedge fund/Wall Street backer bless the deal.
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30 January 2025 | 62 replies
Let's put this into some context: Let's say there is 12 million illegal immigrant's in US today.
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30 January 2025 | 4 replies
In the end we had to pay to turn the space back in to a white box/shell and closed with basically zero physical assets.
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25 January 2025 | 14 replies
@Emily Gowen, The 45 day timelines are fixed and rigid.
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2 February 2025 | 9 replies
However, from a real world day to day experience it's a totally different animal.
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29 January 2025 | 5 replies
You’re going to have to buy at least $1M (or whatever you clear after selling costs.), worth of replacement properties, not $500k.
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23 January 2025 | 9 replies
Not worth the hassle/risk to claim.
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7 February 2025 | 0 replies
HI, I received message a few days ago that my tenant is sending me money through RENT APP, I have no clue what this app is, is it legit?