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25 October 2020 | 4 replies
Until then I’m doing as much research as I can on my own....you know....”give a man a fish...teach a man to fish....”
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5 September 2020 | 5 replies
Ah, but now they have jobs, jobs that make money, and there are plenty of women out there who are looking for a man as a meal ticket first, and everything else later.I'm certainly not knocking all women here.
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19 August 2012 | 7 replies
A good handy man, a contractor or two for rehab and an experienced real estate professional are invaluable.
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1 January 2013 | 5 replies
He and I became friends and eventually worked together.Taking a principal interest in a transaction, in doing business for yourself will keep you out of many license requirements, but not always.In many investor transactions, especially where you have little or no interest in a property and are acting as a straw man, a middle man, you may likely need a license.
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15 October 2013 | 6 replies
I am also considering finding my own maintenance man, as I think the one MBA contracts with charge a bit much.We will have to keep each other posted and maybe between both of us, we can find a great, less expensive company to go through for our Phoenix properties!
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16 June 2014 | 10 replies
I'm not a seasoned flipper but I am a business man. As
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1 October 2020 | 23 replies
Always wanted to invest my own money but was researching buying and selling and acting as the 'straw man' as you put it.Ok Bill, so when you say:"If you are borrowing funds giving a collateral interest in or to the financial instrument, you are then floor planning an inventory and acting as a business if you sell the asset."
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15 March 2014 | 9 replies
What is a " real business email"Is that something that differentiates someone whom is in the business to be the man as opposed to being a business man?
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5 August 2014 | 29 replies
If only every tenant I ever get is like that, I will die a happy man! As
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7 May 2015 | 29 replies
I am also incredulous that a strapping young man with plenty of advantages can only see a poor struggling 80 year old man as disgraceful freeloader.