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20 December 2009 | 22 replies
I agree with Will,and you can chalk me right up there with a wannabe,or maybe a guy who misunderstood alot of things as well,like with the wholesaling bird dogging myth ..as far as no money making deals in real estate,i've come to realize it simply dont exist,you have to pay for marketing and other things as well,direct mail ,and countless other things,and its time consuming,i acutally had quit a decent paying job ,and boy was i ever wrong ,well needless to say that didnt last long ,thought i was going to be the biggest baddest wholesaler around got brung in the PRESTON ELY crap that he preaches how you can get so many deals and do this and that so quickly,not saying that it cant be done ,but im saying i was successful at doing this when i first set out,i've learned that this takes time and simply cannot be done overnight,i think you should also have a mentor,and definiltly not a guru mentor,these guys just want to suck you money bone dry.....they make half of their money by their products they sell.....so i've reconditined my thinking and getting my license and joining a commercial brokerage....and will be looking to get into some commercial investments
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1 November 2016 | 77 replies
It's been shown numerous times that humans can watch something happen countless times and it rarely effects their behavior but if something actually does happen to them, it will effect their behavior intensely.
21 October 2016 | 18 replies
I got the agreement that you sent me and it included none of the things you said. i got the countless emails i sent you, the cancelled appointments, the unreturned phone records.
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29 June 2017 | 1 reply
After listening to countless podcasts and reading various real estate books, blogs, etc, I am confident in making the next step.
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7 October 2017 | 21 replies
There are countless threads about folks stuck at the refi portion of BRRRR because they did the "walk into a credit union" option above.
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9 February 2018 | 12 replies
I've caught countless crackheads in my properties over the years - and often times sitting right next to them is a broken lockbox, and in their backpack is a pair of bolt cutters and a hacksaw.
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16 March 2018 | 78 replies
You did what you did.. or.. wait.. let's rephrase .. you didn't do what I did, and.. well you are not top of google getting countless of free high quality leads.
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24 May 2019 | 4 replies
I’ve read books, and I’ve listened to countless podcast, but I’m missing diverse advice from actual investors in our city.
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1 July 2008 | 182 replies
I know countless people who made hundreds of thousands of dollars from relatively small earnest money deposits on pre-construction properties via a simple assignment during construction (example, they put $60k down on a $300k pre-construction purchase only to assign the sale for $500k prior to completion of construction).
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1 December 2013 | 21 replies
I can not explain the chemical process, but that is what has been explained, demonstrated, and drilled into me by countless educators.Using bleach to "kill mold" usually means that the user plans to saturate a surface with bleach.