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3 April 2024 | 83 replies
This can be a very tough line to toe, especially when potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars are on the line.While appraising is all about numbers, there are people involved, and anytime you have people involved, the task becomes infinitely more complex (yes, infinitely -- as an example, there's no computer in the world I can't beat in poker, but you add an idiot with half a brain and at best, over a small number of trials, I'm 70/30).So, I certainly don't mean to bash appraisers as a whole, though in this case, I had every intent to bash a particular appraiser...
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1 April 2024 | 39 replies
My two businesses are gameified, and I am just as excited sometimes as I was as a child when I was riding my bike to buy used computer parts using my friends piggybank money (my first OPM lol) and then sell a working computer for a profit!
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29 March 2024 | 0 replies
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30 March 2024 | 27 replies
Well, my initial thought is to create a game, similar to the Monopoly computer game.
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28 March 2024 | 34 replies
Every additional dollar you make is subject to 35%.Do realize the tax is only computed on the net taxable income, which should be less than your total income.
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25 March 2024 | 2 replies
Likely owned by GSH Ventures,another retail multifamily real estate schemeElisa Zhang is a real estate finfluencer, formerly a computer engineer, who markets herself through the ElizaZhang Financial Independence University41.
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25 March 2024 | 3 replies
The cap computation is still relevant, but that's now how they are appraised.
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25 March 2024 | 0 replies
For newly constructed, purchased or renovated properties and also retroactive generally over the last 10 years, building components are properly classified into individual units of property and accurate recovery periods for computing depreciation deductions.
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25 March 2024 | 9 replies
My concern is my full time job and my masters in computer engineering and juggling that with the newborn.
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26 March 2024 | 47 replies
Foreclosures Auctions are a great way to buy and create cash flow and equity, but as you know you need the cash to buy and pay settlement cost.Be prepared when considering purchases at the court house steps, do your home work first:Years ago I would go to the court house (before computers and the internet came into my life) to look at the foreclosures filings.