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20 April 2024 | 6 replies
Your agent is incentivized (and for survival they need to offload as much service as possible) to send you to a call center for anything after the initial sale.
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20 April 2024 | 6 replies
Keep your growth slow & steady to be able to survive any inevitable challenges:)Some advice would be to NOT spread yourself over too many geographic areas.
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19 April 2024 | 6 replies
The house has survived many hurricanes with little damage, but the insurance company said they would not renew coverage without a windstorm exclusion.
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23 April 2024 | 30 replies
So in theory the rate should move down to 150-200bps at least for them "to survive".Will the Fed do it ?
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17 April 2024 | 3 replies
I’ve survived this biz for 35 years without losing investor principal, across many adverse market cycles, and I couldn’t do that by taking on much “wipe out risk.”
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21 April 2024 | 240 replies
They survived inspections from lenders and I was able to sell them.I think what Mr Lau experiences is way more extreme, equivalent to a scam.
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12 April 2024 | 16 replies
My mom is willing me her house when she passes away. Any suggestions on how to structure the will with specific provisions to allow my stepfather to remain after her death? My heart would like to let him stay for free...
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15 April 2024 | 33 replies
Not trying to be a jerk, but you have a better chance of surviving when jumping out of a plane at 10,000 ft without a parachute than remotely managing a class D rental from afar.
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11 April 2024 | 2 replies
Just because you have the inside scoop on the property doesn't mean you know things like: Are there other liens on the property that would survive the auction?
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10 April 2024 | 7 replies
Look at it this way - you did just about everything wrong that a new investor could do and you still survived!