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6 February 2025 | 13 replies
We self manage our properties, but we provide maintenance work for others rentals and pretty much all the property managers around here are mediocre.
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5 February 2025 | 56 replies
If rents don't increase faster than inflation, you won't have sufficient funds to cope with rising costs.
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19 January 2025 | 2 replies
It felt like everyone I found were self-serving, looking to line their own pockets, or not willing guide because of fear of competition.
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21 January 2025 | 15 replies
Spend a little more money than you might have been planning to, buy in a better area (i.e. not a “turn key” 100k house off the mls), and self manage.
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5 January 2025 | 7 replies
If you are not building in sufficient capex, then these costs could be higher, if not much higher.
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12 January 2025 | 12 replies
Are you self-managing?
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19 January 2025 | 10 replies
I hadn’t heard about interest going back to self tho!
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10 January 2025 | 6 replies
With $150k here you’re just a little tight on budget but can make it happen if you self-manage and do your own furnishing and design.
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18 January 2025 | 15 replies
If you go back to work as self employed, there are some NonQM programs out there that can do a cash out refi after just 1 year of bank statements or P&L.
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30 January 2025 | 47 replies
So, it's not like Scott had devised some extra default prone strategy to troll gullible fools, while making all his money teaching noobs to self-destruct.