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6 June 2019 | 7 replies
That's ok.Basically what you're seeing is sharks circling the smell of blood in the water.
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3 July 2019 | 17 replies
You can try to get blood out of a rock and recover money from her, but from a kharma standpoint it is just bad energy.
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5 January 2019 | 40 replies
So even starting out a step ahead of others, it still takes a long time, blood, sweat, and tears.If you're looking for reasonable time lines for someone who isn't currently involved in real estate (and I admittedly don't know your full story either, so maybe you are involved with real estate in some fashion currently), I'd say it'll take 12 years to build a solid business you can live off of, if you did it 24/7/365 for all of those years.
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14 November 2018 | 24 replies
My mother hires a second listing agent. the guy claims to be an investor and flipper, and seems a lot more knowledgeable than the last agent, but I think when an out of state woman inherits a free and clear home in an opportune location with incredibly high holding costs, everyone smells a little blood in the water... hell i would...
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5 October 2018 | 6 replies
I don't generally find it advantageous to try to squeeze every drop of blood out of a rock, as you then start pushing up vacancy rates, having much fewer qualified tenants, etc.
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29 May 2020 | 6 replies
Looking back, they weren't so ridiculous,but I learned how to better assess estimates as we put in blood, sweat, and tears ourselves so that was worth it.
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6 October 2019 | 8 replies
Anyone can get high blood lead levels, the law only specifies under 6 because it affects the developing brain more severely then a it affects a fully developed brain.
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28 November 2019 | 9 replies
I'm in New Berlin right now which is a bit too rich for my blood at this point, but it got me considering Milwaukee more if I found a better neighborhood that had a bit cheaper homes.
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24 June 2020 | 3 replies
It's been so much hard work because we've done all of the labor ourselves. 15 weeks of working 6 days a week, 8 hours a day, neglecting home responsibilities, blood, sweat, and tears!
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7 May 2020 | 1 reply
I could barely understand what was going on, but I could feel my blood rushing through my veins as he announced my target was next.