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2 January 2025 | 3 replies
Hey Jaxin,Congrats on jumping into the real estate game.
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22 January 2025 | 8 replies
This is a numbers game so you may have to take an aggressive approach towards negotiating several deals before one of them actually works out.
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1 January 2025 | 36 replies
Picture this: 3 pools and hot tubs, a dynamic game room, a versatile venue, pickle-ball courts, outdoor theater, mini-golf, and more.
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6 January 2025 | 7 replies
These can make crunching numbers a bit more difficult because due to the guessing game.
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2 January 2025 | 32 replies
By the way, I am not getting any commission for my opinion, or I am affiliated or anything.
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9 January 2025 | 5 replies
Yes, the more units you go up, generally the less players in the game so there is some advantage in purchase competition as you go up, but also more management scale and cap ex for someone who is new.3.
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7 January 2025 | 8 replies
One tip is to start looking into meetups to connect with investors / others in the REI game (in person/online).
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2 January 2025 | 0 replies
It was great to get our heads in the game, and got us to move quicker to get a house (since we were basically forced to get a pre-approved loan in order to tour houses...).
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22 January 2025 | 203 replies
Compare that to Phoenix where I had been to a game just one month earlier.
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28 December 2024 | 19 replies
Hey @Marc Shin, so yes on the games.