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17 August 2024 | 56 replies
I have also had a house burn down, which ironically enough saved me about 5K as the land had good value but the house was a tear down and it reduced the demo cost I had to pay (no I did not start the fire!)
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11 August 2024 | 7 replies
at $5/lead, do any leads close at $100/lead, do the leads close, it might be worth far more for good leads, than just burning money on cheap leads.4.
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14 August 2024 | 134 replies
It’s all about raising money for their next fund, not about telling investors what’s really going on.I stuck about 7 years of burn into my corporate account so that I have zero pressure to buy anything, including crypto, STR, self storage and ATMs.
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10 August 2024 | 85 replies
Though you can probably get a good price if you want to risk it getting burned down in a riot :p
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15 August 2024 | 86 replies
So the only concern about losing your w2 would be if that was going to make your D/I ratio so bad that you were burning through your 401K faster than you feel comfortable with.
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8 August 2024 | 7 replies
There have been some recent posts about investors that had their property burned down and insurance wouldn’t cover it because it was determined the batteries were not working in the smokes.
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8 August 2024 | 17 replies
Think about it, what if the property had a fire and burned down before you close.
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12 August 2024 | 37 replies
Which we know it isn't, because if it was you'd be doing something else not sitting on $1.3m liquid cash just burning up to inflation in an account somewhere.
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13 August 2024 | 97 replies
EVERYONE gets burned eventually (even I have from foreclosures I couldn’t get into).Never trust these illegal wholesalers, especially the ones that go after newbie investors.
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6 August 2024 | 9 replies
Quote from @Carol Burns: I am looking at a sfr.