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4 February 2025 | 41 replies
Every day I receive calls from out of state investors who paid far too much for their property in my opinion and it always is because they trusted others too much instead of performing their own research.
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24 January 2025 | 2 replies
6 months later, I have doubled the size of the yard with all the clearing, performed a unit turn raising rent over $600.
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4 February 2025 | 13 replies
Plenty of STRs that perform just as good as the pool STRs because they have a great design, location, or other fun amenities that have less liability and headache.
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24 December 2024 | 5 replies
Hi All, As an active investor in syndications, I'm curious to hear about recent performance across the community.
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7 February 2025 | 5 replies
Someone put a fancy brand name on something relatively common.When the policy is designed properly, they should always outperform traditional retirement plans (dollar for dollar).
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28 December 2024 | 8 replies
I would love any advice on landlords' favorite brands or models that last well and are not complicated.
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13 January 2025 | 3 replies
I have opportunity to buy a small portfolio of performing commercial notes with LTV's less than 50%.
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20 January 2025 | 6 replies
Cold calling is already such a poor-performing strategy. the ONE thing good about cold calling is that you are talking to a HUMAN, building rapport, and asking and answering questions.Now that ONE good thing about it is taken away...Like David above me, no experience, and it would indeed be interesting to see how it does, but that doesn't take away from what I mentioned above.
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30 January 2025 | 4 replies
Well worth it IMHO given poor performance of RTO/seller financed zillow listings.
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26 January 2025 | 11 replies
Added brand new cabinets and granite countertops.