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30 November 2015 | 20 replies
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29 November 2015 | 1 reply
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8 March 2016 | 5 replies
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10 February 2016 | 8 replies
I am excited to be on here to learn, network, and be part of a thriving industry.
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27 May 2018 | 27 replies
If you have made it and thrived more than 5 years in the business you have doing something very few ever will.Most agents the first year might do a few sales from their sphere and then they have to generate new business to survive.
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23 June 2018 | 16 replies
Neighborhoods that were once ghost towns have come back, East English Village, Chandler Park, etc. have been redone and are now thriving.
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6 September 2018 | 15 replies
I think what might add some context to my hesitation to jump into all of this is the fact that I am 7 mos pregnant with our first child and he also has another business that is not thriving yet - so all the unknowns of the expenses of those things make me want to be fairly conservative and be as bulletproof as possible when we do pull the trigger!
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12 January 2019 | 2 replies
I’m excited to thrive in this business and to learn new things about it.
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21 October 2019 | 6 replies
There are a lot of military real estate investors on BP, and some awesome communities out there for us to thrive.
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19 September 2018 | 0 replies
Furthermore, it’s not just small towns; urban neighborhoods have also thrived and been reborn with the help of pioneering breweries; Great Lake’s Brewing Company helped resuscitate Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood after opening in 1988 (Sisson, 2017, p. 5).http://igrow.org/community-development/communities...When Brooklyn Brewery opened in the Williamsburg section of the borough in 1996, its neighbors were mostly deserted warehouses and factories.