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25 September 2024 | 20 replies
I currently work in the Information Technology sector as a programmer analyst and am looking to start this exciting adventure toward financial independence using real estate as the vehicle.
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22 September 2024 | 2 replies
The property is zoned as a 2-unit but have 3 independent units to potentially generate rent.
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24 September 2024 | 49 replies
Service animals literally save lives and allow their owner to live more independently.
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24 September 2024 | 13 replies
As someone that has previously worked as a financial advisor and currently works as a real estate agent, I think you definitely need an agent independent of your financial advisor.
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24 September 2024 | 22 replies
They may (or may not) be willing to show you how their system works.Another is that there are often two independent departments.
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22 September 2024 | 7 replies
I recommend hiring a Bookkeeper who is Independent of the PM and knows what they are doing because if they PM is doing weird things they can catch it and have no care if you fire that PM.
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21 September 2024 | 1 reply
I stress that these are 100% third-party independent deals, I get no commission or referral fees, they are simply big enough deals that there is plenty of space for other people, so it costs me nothing to share the done due diligence.Over the last month, a group of us have been doing due diligence on Zero New Boston (https://lnkd.in/g5bdR56v), Woburn, MA.
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23 September 2024 | 21 replies
One of the regrets I had after gaining some experience: we could have qualified independently for FHA loans that we took on together before we were married.
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19 September 2024 | 1 reply
Work with a knowledgeable independent agent.
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22 September 2024 | 6 replies
The goal of a large number of real estate investors is to have a large enough real estate portfolio generating a large enough amount of cash income to retire from whatever their “8 - 5” is, be that corporate employee, independent contractor, or business owner.