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26 January 2025 | 2 replies
When the whole covid shutdown occurred, I dropped out of college to help my father's service business maintaining and remodeling residential and commercial buildings.
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26 January 2025 | 32 replies
Anyone in business takes risks, but a lawsuit and some other things don't look great.
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24 January 2025 | 16 replies
Which is a tax when you do an active business in your IRA but it is essentially the same thing.
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30 January 2025 | 34 replies
Personally, I think this company is probaby about to go out of business - they have lots of inventory, and it's not exactly prudent to be investing in FL in the coastal areas now anyway.
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27 January 2025 | 6 replies
@Michael James Hamlin I'm a former tax accountant/business consultant turned fix n flipper and investor friendly agent.
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27 January 2025 | 7 replies
Property management is a "nickle" and "dime" business.
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29 January 2025 | 10 replies
Their company is pretty great at not responding to their communities people , not following local law yet alone their own lease agreements The uptick of lot rents I get it it’s business but also driving out affordability for people which again it’s a business so some may say that part is just the territory , but not following lease agreements , hiring poor management and then doing nothing about it when it’s escalated is a reflection on their business aswell best of luck.
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23 January 2025 | 23 replies
That's why I would never had a business partner.
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3 February 2025 | 34 replies
If I live a busy life and don't have the time or care to invest on my own, but want to put, lets say $200k to work, is a 15% cash flow return reasonable?
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4 February 2025 | 3 replies
You'll find a lot of hard working contractors.Have something to write on as many of the contractors won't have business cards.You'll still want to screen them a bit because, "there's a reason they work with the hands, not their heads":)