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27 September 2018 | 7 replies
Rent control is a knee jerk reaction to a bigger problem and it will just make things worse.
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25 August 2018 | 26 replies
@Jason DiClemente My reaction: https://media.giphy.com/media/7rj2ZgttvgomY/giphy.gif
29 August 2018 | 2 replies
My first reaction is to not do this deal.
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26 April 2019 | 22 replies
You sir, have never owned or worked in the Class C or the ghetto.You are dismissedMy first reaction is to burst out laughing.
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18 April 2019 | 43 replies
When you go at someone all hard core right off the bat, you will get 1 of 2 reactions....... you will scare the crap out of them and they will fold and do whatever you want.... or they will see it as a threat and a challenge and dig their heals in even farther.
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25 April 2019 | 85 replies
If the first reaction is the issue, defuse it through meeting by phone and other ways where they do not get to see you until they already know you are the real deal.
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25 April 2019 | 19 replies
But I've cleared enough poison ivy to develop a very bad reaction to it, and I am occasionally exposed to it as part of this life of running rentals.
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27 April 2019 | 24 replies
His reaction when I told him a few months ago was essentially, "Oops."
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28 April 2019 | 11 replies
However, that type of reaction (outer areas seeing sharper declines) had more to do with the areas having more cookie cutter subdivisions and available land than anything.