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Victor D. Pozzo Air Pad IAH - crash pad for Airline Crew
21 August 2022 | 9 replies
Found a realtor and honestly took the biggest gamble of my life... ran with it and didn’t look back.
Steve Fitzgerald How to mitigate party rentals
17 July 2020 | 11 replies
You can do what I do, which is state a minimum age of 25 and have your offshore assistants check and verify all of their IDs.
William Thomas 15 yr or a 30 yr mortgage???
21 July 2019 | 87 replies
Anything else is gambling
Mike F. Bank asking what i'm doing with the funds?
30 December 2018 | 68 replies
Banks do not want people to borrow the money and gamble it away at a casino.
Ryan B. Hitting the casino
13 April 2012 | 8 replies
How about some good stories: won a bunch, lost a bunch, anything funny to help get me in the gambling mood?
N/A N/A Pinnacle Development Partners, LLC
30 October 2009 | 1569 replies
hello all-been sitting on the sidelines reading this about 2 weeks now--i have probably been in the longest(8/05) and have just broken even before all this hit the fan-folks, i hate tosay it, but we've been beatim sure 90% of us are hard working folks just trying to feed our families and pay the mortgage--not really the "accredited" investor types--(which they were supposed to verify BEFORE accepting our money)the really wealthy wouldnt need to try and get 25% in 60days---we are the honest ones, who put our trust in people to try and get ahead--and now we rolled the dice and lost(so far)---what we did was NOT investing,,it was gambling---and now our hard earned money is not coming back to us---i GUARANTEE that anyone who says they were paid after the 25th (i was due the 26th) is not being forthright---and at this point, HONESTLY, are you really interested anymore in their new venture?
Tyra General Auctions?
4 September 2008 | 3 replies
I've had good experience with online auctions to buy and sale.I use a reserve price when listing with an auction.Research the auction policies to become familiar with their procedures.Also, learn a good bid strategy.Due diligence on any property is also important.And, beware that bidding (and winning) can become very emotional and "addictive" similar to gambling in my opinion.
Kathryn C. If you had $1 million to invest in RE, how would you invest it in the current market?
11 November 2014 | 30 replies
I'd try to turn it over at minimum 3 times per year rehabbing and flipping until I could pay it all back and have my very own pile of capital warehoused to gamble with.
Ben Hughes Partnership with Relative
4 May 2013 | 11 replies
Offshore trust.
Stephen Masek Debt, The biggest drug
19 October 2013 | 38 replies
A commercial property “owner” who needs cash at a time when prices are down may lose the equity when the property is sold, yet the bank loan may be paid in full.Using other people’s money is still touted by some as wise and the way to true wealth, but it is really just gambling.