What does the little "influence" deal mean beside our name and the number of times we have posted?

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However, you do not want to act as an outside lender and take an equity position or have control or undue influence over the borrower.

Now is a GREAT time to refi...don't wait as rates will start climbing. they already did in the last month alone with the uncertainty that surrounded the fiscal cliff and debt ceiling etc.

Plus others ...Votes add to the influence score of both the giver and the recipient of the vote!

The target return and capital allocation will also influence the choice.  

Other advantages is the bank will schedule the BPO through you, so you can do the walk through with the agent doing the BPO and this can be very helpful because you can influence the pricing opinion of this agent by pointing out anything helpful that might effect pricing of a home as in repairs, crime stats, school districting, whatever it maybe that would effect that opinion downward.

It basically just scours the web for similar content and then combines them into cohesive sentences with natural language processing.It's not actually generating any 'new' advice, it's just synthesizing the content that's been viewed and re-viewed on the web. i.e chatGPT has never actually built a $100m business, and its production database  (information leading up to EOY 2021 that is labeled "success, 100m, real estate investing, business") may not be the best guide for success in 2023 and beyond.Also the prime problem with non-technical 'influencers' like alex hormozi reviewing chatGPT is that he actually has no clue how the algorithm was built, how the models were trained, how applicable its results are over time, and what the model's limitations are.

The only way you might influence them is if you have evidence of fraud. 

(It really is rather top secret, because public knowledge will influence property prices artificially and is not in the public's best interest).This is why owners need to pay attention to economic indicators, growth and maturity stages and the bigger picture when selecting an area, you should be looking at the area before you look at a specific property.Next, look at the tax benefits of holding a low income property, they will be less but, the depreciation schedule will be behind actual and physical depreciation.