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24 December 2024 | 17 replies
While it is true that the time of year can influence market activity, as others have mentioned, there is usually a trade-off depending on the season.
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22 January 2025 | 203 replies
Who knows, maybe there is a state that can parallel the great weather in California, the five-star restaurants in Napa Valley, the geographical diversity, the rich ethnic influences, the skiing and surfing all in the same day and somehow, have no homeless people.
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17 December 2024 | 3 replies
What do people use for crime data . Use to be on Zillow but because they are woke ...no longer . Very important to me especially investing out of state
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5 February 2025 | 205 replies
This will influence the supply in the area but in some specific niche or criteria, that's why is important to review constantly the area -inflow of new families are not slowing down.
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8 February 2025 | 49 replies
Having been involved in various industries and businesses, I’m well aware of the pitfalls, and not falling for the “get rich quick” schemes like buying Section 8 housing using gimmicky software.
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11 January 2025 | 420 replies
Only the data differs.Here's the summary...Here's the example, without Loan Acceleration: Loan Amount $ 200,000.00 Total of Payments $ 386,511.57 Interest Rate / yr 5.00% Total Interest Paid $ 186,511.57 Term (Years) 30 Payoff (years) 30.00 Monthly P&I $ 1,073.64 Number of Payments 360 (Sorry - copy-and-paste from Excel doesn't work quite like it should in the forum software.)Now, here it is WITH loan acceleration: an additional $15,000 once a year: Loan Amount $ 200,000.00 Total of Payments $ 252,073.75 Interest Rate / yr 5.00% Total Interest Paid $ 52,073.75 Term (Years) 30 Payoff (years) 9.17 Monthly P&I $ 1,073.64 Number of Payments 110 .So, there's the savings in interest (numbers rounded):Without debt acceleration, $186,512 over the life of the loan.With debt acceleration, $52,074.Total interest savings: $134,438."... b-b-but David, what about the interest on the HELOC?"
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4 January 2025 | 14 replies
Having proper software and systems3.
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2 February 2025 | 178 replies
Unless you can influence the builders to return our deposits like you made us get into this deal with them as we trusted you, the matter has not moved an inch for folks like me.
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21 January 2025 | 59 replies
Because if were talking out-OUT, well, back to start right, who wants to be a GM in a company of 1, without upward mobility they can directly impact and influence.
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28 December 2024 | 26 replies
i am totally impressed with the way 'guru' out there trying to influence people promising there's a gold cave somewhere from 'infinite banking' to 'my own the greatest system ever' :-) I bet they save their money in the crypto token as well.