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3 February 2025 | 14 replies
What meetups would you recommend.
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11 February 2025 | 20 replies
I would highly recommend @River Sava over there, she's great.
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5 February 2025 | 14 replies
I would recommend opening up a brokerage account with Schwab, Fidelity, Vanguard or any other large firm like this.
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14 February 2025 | 1 reply
Any advice and book recommendations are welcomed.
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17 January 2025 | 28 replies
What I find to be most valuable: Ease of use, cost-savings and efficiency and here's what I mean: If using an interior designer to furnish your rental, they will hand you a list of supplies + furniture to buy and what I was able to do with Minoan is upload that list as a CSV file and then they come back with a quote of all of the items they can fulfill along with their respective discount.
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22 January 2025 | 8 replies
Personally when I’m working on a project time is money and I don’t have the ability to wait around to get supplies.
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30 January 2025 | 4 replies
Quote from @Ben Trageser: Highly recommend Maven Cost Seg!
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9 February 2025 | 3 replies
BiggerPockets also has a calculator to analyze deals, and I highly recommend you start this as soon as possible, even if you are not ready to buy.
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6 February 2025 | 1 reply
Pending Did you work with any real estate professionals (agents, lenders, etc.) that you'd recommend to others?
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11 February 2025 | 4 replies
Did you work with any real estate professionals (agents, lenders, etc.) that you'd recommend to others?