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8 March 2015 | 21 replies
Well yeah.. blood is thicker than... water!
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1 April 2015 | 13 replies
Once I get one property the idea is to build a portfolio but that will come with blood, sweat, and tears.
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2 November 2014 | 4 replies
As I said, I live in Australia, however my blood is North American and I have travelled a lot of North America seeing all my family and I also had a look at some proprties when I was there, mainly in Florida.
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8 January 2014 | 3 replies
My market has turned into a blood bath fighting for rehabs pressing prices above reason, all the while rentals with a vacancy rate of 3% and a solid 5%-7% annual appreciation on rents across the board each of the last 3 years with the only change in sight to be growth to those returns.
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8 July 2017 | 7 replies
It sounds like you put a lot of blood, sweat and tears in it and it paid off.
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16 June 2021 | 4 replies
You can't get blood out of a stone.
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3 July 2017 | 0 replies
This house wasn't salable then, and it isn't now, even though WE are throwing money, blood, sweat and tears into it.
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22 May 2019 | 10 replies
So when you go to sell, unless your market skyrockets, you are not going to make much if any after only making a handful of payments.In my opinion the better option is to put the 3.5% down (FHA), put your blood, sweat, tears and money into it.
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27 September 2023 | 111 replies
For some of us that used to live in the 1980, this is nothing similar to James saying, when I said inflation what I mean is there're 1000 tanks in the street, some general kidnapping the activist, there're actual blood in the street.
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21 November 2013 | 9 replies
Depends on how the exiting tenancy is going, how clean they keep the place, if there's "bad blood" between you & them.