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28 February 2019 | 55 replies
You can see that our immigrates from these countries have it mostly correct, they send their kids for practical degrees in medicine, engineering, and accounting.
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21 December 2017 | 12 replies
Hopefully you just have a number in the wrong spot and that's artificially reducing your return.
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10 August 2009 | 4 replies
With passage of socialized medicine they'll make a huge stride toward that goal.
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22 August 2018 | 7 replies
To calculate the cost to you to generate your artificial cash flow deduct $833 for every 100K of paid off property value from your rental income monthly.
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6 April 2021 | 122 replies
I would be curious to know if you had previously represented this unethical seller (artificially placing unqualified tenants) and if you continue to do so, my guess is probably yes to both.Interesting what you had to say about your agent and throwing him under the bus.
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11 December 2023 | 3 replies
I also enjoy purchasing shares of companies in my portfolio during times of distress and market corrections when prices are artificially low.
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26 May 2016 | 11 replies
There was some minor repairs that we had to do:The previous owner took one (of two) medicine cabinets out of each bathroom.They took the appliances.They took the ceiling fans, but the bank had already replaced them.They left the garbage disposal, but took the plumbing under the sink.Took every door stop in the house.and, my favorite...They took the middle hinge off of the interior doors (I never did fix that).Took us about $1500 to finish the rehab work, and during that time, some thieves stole my air conditioner.
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8 November 2014 | 22 replies
Most of the 15 and 30 year mortgages in the US are backed by the government and have an artificially lower rate than the market.
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18 November 2014 | 51 replies
Unfortunately, my science/medicine background taught me zero about excel, so I wouldn't even know where to start.
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7 September 2018 | 95 replies
Things like rents artificially high, not being able to rerent at the quoted rents, prices being way higher than the market, war zones, finding out their renters were convicted felons so their renter insurance was useless, houses with horrible defects, there are lots of horror stories.I wish all the luck to those who buy turnkey, there is a lot of due diligence, but do not believe for a second there are not horror stories out there about shady turnkey operators.I myself have bought a property that was kind of a turn key, they are not evil but they can be high risk without a LOT of due dilligence.If the turn key providers want to debate this fact I would be glad to bring bring a moderator or 2 into this thread to help out.