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4 December 2024 | 0 replies
By utilizing one provider for both services, both can be aligned, customized to your portfolio’s needs which should achieve a better outcome overall.Real estate investing can be very complex and navigating taxes, compliance and insurance can be overwhelming and complex, deterring some people from expanding their portfolio or from investing at all.
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2 December 2024 | 2 replies
The analysis is targeted to small time DIY landlords with 1-5 properties with minimum requirements to be able to do the following tasks online: Listing/Syndication, Applications, Screenings, Leases with eSignature, Payment Customization (i.e.
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30 December 2024 | 89 replies
@John Underwood It's a 12-month lease, and they want me to extend it actually to a 24-month lease or longer, which I told them I'll do after a few months just so I know the property does well for the area.A lot of landlords like to be hands-off when it comes to their properties Airbnb is a combination of customer service, property management, and so on.
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3 December 2024 | 4 replies
At the time I looked, 20 or so years ago, the problem with smaller down towns is the proliferation of nearby strip malls, where the stores are surrounded by a large parking lots, and for laundromats, attract more customers as they can park easily, walk to adjacent stores for shopping, snacks, and browse newspaper and magazine racks, which explains why they do better, there's more customers.
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3 December 2024 | 2 replies
If you're looking to make short term use of the equity and have a private lender/investor who's willing to think outside of the box, you might be able to create a custom repo agreement.
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5 December 2024 | 87 replies
Glad you have good customer service as well -- something that wasn't done well in 2014-2015.
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6 December 2024 | 21 replies
@Dave Harlan They have an amazing product but your better off using a mortgage broker with a great reputation for customer service because they offer wholesale pricing advantages to their brokers and the only complaints I've ever heard about them have come from service issues on the retail side.
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3 December 2024 | 1 reply
It’s a beautiful custom home, one of the nicest in a so-so Oakland neighborhood ("biggest house in not the best area").Here’s the context:- Bought in 2014 for $590k, appraised in 2022 for $1.2m.- Located in a C- to B neighborhood—close to amenities and mostly safe but not for everyone.- Converted to a rental in 2024; initially rented for $4,750/month, but tenants moved out, and the soft Bay Area rental market has made filling it challenging.
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3 December 2024 | 3 replies
Monarch does a great job of being the "dashboard" and appears to have good customization features.
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4 December 2024 | 6 replies
Generally when I talk to my customers looking to buy a property each year FHA usually gets in the way with one or more of its overlays and restrictions.