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12 April 2006 | 10 replies
There are no shortcuts but Finkel and Conti's books are good.
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7 January 2015 | 22 replies
Accounts need to be opened for financial purposes or legal requirements, not as short cuts for personal money management.
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30 September 2013 | 13 replies
Less competition, sellers more flexible because they want to close by year end and January is a good rental month.Learn the business, don't look for short cuts, be a good landlord and rehab your properties well so maintenance does not eat up your cash flow, screen tenants well, enforce your lease and personal boundaries with your tenants.
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26 August 2014 | 9 replies
I would keep a journal and pictures of the whole process to show a potential buyer the quality that was put in and no shortcuts were taken etc.
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6 January 2015 | 14 replies
Plus, it's just plain unprofessional to shortcut grammar and punctuation in any medium and the free email domain names are a major red flag too.
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13 February 2010 | 13 replies
I don't know of any short cuts in Real Estate Investing.
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10 June 2009 | 2 replies
Unfortunately there is no shortcuts.
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23 June 2015 | 17 replies
Maybe you've found a short cut that cuts through all the garbage.
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14 May 2015 | 28 replies
When the 'low bid' number is already within the range of acceptable profit, the smart business person who has already expended a fixed amount of their limited company resources to get near the finish line of the sales process, the smart one is going to short-cut the the process by at least 'taking a shot' at it and closing the sale immediately rather than submitting a blind bid.