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15 December 2024 | 10 replies
Secondly, the appraisal often notes functional obsolescence because of this and a lack of a common area.
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16 December 2024 | 2 replies
There are some important factors that you need to take note of with regards to the 1031 exchange or the Tax-deferred exchange: •One important requirement you need to have if are an investor and you want to take advantage of this 1031 Exchange is that the property you are selling should be significant when it comes to trade or business functions that are beneficial for the people as well as for the government.
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18 December 2024 | 3 replies
Due to past poor management of the environmental infrastructure, the river has become illegal to swim in in certain parts, and after rain falls the entire river is off limits to swim or fish in due to the heavy amounts of pollution ending up there that the city has not had the infrastructure to deal with in the past.But this all began to change in 2017, when the Virginia General Assembly passed the largest infrastructure project in Alexandria's history to make the Potomac River swimmable, and fishable by the year 2040, and they have made significant progress recently with the completion of the 2 mile long, 100-foot deep Waterfront Tunnel named Hazel.Named after environmental activist Hazel Johnson, the Hazel Waterfront Tunnel will prevent millions of gallons of combined sewage from polluting the region's waterways.
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13 December 2024 | 13 replies
Quote from @Zachary Deal: One thing to keep in mind if you are doing this is that you are likely to create "functional obsolescence" which could mean you are not able to get a new loan against your property and it can be difficult to resell as well.
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18 December 2024 | 23 replies
Trying to have my cake and eat it too by paying off the mortgage and having that comfort or largest expense being gone, and still being able to scale rental properties with the liquidity of the all in one.
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14 December 2024 | 6 replies
Most do not follow it which is you can have someone assist in capital raise but it cannot be their only function - it must be less than 50%.
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10 December 2024 | 7 replies
Another issue I see with older homes is the layout and functionality is tough to manipulate even during a full gut.
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19 January 2025 | 269 replies
Does Bigger Pockets have a clever scheduling function on it at all?!
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22 December 2024 | 24 replies
We saw the largest since Covid just this past week.
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8 December 2024 | 8 replies
Zelle is free to transfer money, and is owned by 7 of the largest US banks.