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8 December 2016 | 38 replies
Meaning if OP buys said purchase option for $3500, and then discovers a collapsing foundation, she doesn't get that $3500 back?
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20 April 2016 | 8 replies
I also spent three years as as a loan officer until the mortgage industry collapsed in 2007.I recent years I have been in the residential and commercial remodeling business.
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10 May 2017 | 27 replies
I'd be much more concerned about things like crumbling foundations, buried underground oil tanks, weird/illegal/collapsing extensions, etc.
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8 February 2018 | 1 reply
Granted, built in 1875 is older than most but if it has stood this long I doubt it will collapse in the next ten years.I'd buy it if the numbers were right.
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25 July 2018 | 200 replies
Eventually the house of cards collapsed and nearly took the global economy with it.
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23 January 2017 | 34 replies
Now concerning market risk of a deployment, natural disaster, collapse of the currency or running out of oil or anything.
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26 December 2013 | 8 replies
The liquidity collapse is always more difficult for bigger fish.
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8 February 2018 | 8 replies
Nice to finally have you join the chat @George@George KabakiI was in the Phoenix market before, during and right after the collapse.
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29 May 2009 | 3 replies
In all seriousness, I'm not criticizing his opinion, he could easily be right and that would certainly cause the economy to collapse as I am expecting.Mike
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29 September 2015 | 3 replies
The house was north of Detroit and I had no money to fix it up but I did manage to make it work as a rental until the housing market collapse which did not end well.