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22 January 2025 | 0 replies
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29 January 2025 | 14 replies
Hopefully your tenant accepts responsibility.
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20 January 2025 | 242 replies
When a loss was incurred I accepted it as a cost of investing without thorough investigation and or the percentage probability of an unprofitable outcome.
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7 January 2025 | 0 replies
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10 February 2025 | 16 replies
If you pay more, you won't meet your metrics and will probably have negative cashflow and/or equity.You may have to make 10, 20 or even 100 offers to get one accepted at the price that meets your numbers.This is what all investors did BEFORE the Great Real Estate Crash of 2008-2010.
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28 January 2025 | 11 replies
Most of my landlords either don't accept pets at all or are super pet-friendly so pet rent has never been something we have charged.
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7 January 2025 | 6 replies
I do have a small shop with equipment that I use exclusively in fixing my rentals.
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10 February 2025 | 25 replies
I've resisted long term rentals, but am finally accepting that this is the most boring but solid way to create wealth.
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16 January 2025 | 6 replies
The only time we will not make an offer site unseen is if we run into a situation where an owner or a realtor won't accept site unseen offers.
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9 January 2025 | 16 replies
While using QuickBooks it is a mind set and you have to accept the process and procedures to use it as a real estate and property management software.