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26 November 2024 | 44 replies
You set the GPS, drive to the ice cream parlor, buy some ice cream, and now your kids are happy.Now, consider the next few questions:Did the ice cream parlor lift a finger to get you in their store?
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26 November 2024 | 5 replies
I'm not crazy about the big box stores as they seem to charge too much.
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26 November 2024 | 9 replies
Wholesaling is a mirage that social media and fake gurus make seem easy when in reality, most fail miserably and spend their money on one month of marketing when everyone knows it takes six to eight months of cross-platform marketing to make stuff happen.My best advice is not to wholesale.
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28 November 2024 | 14 replies
And finally, while there are likely some pro accounts that will only give you discounts if you are licensed, most will let anyone sign up, and are often based on volume spent at that store anyways.
30 November 2024 | 4 replies
Again, the BiggerPockets store has some books on this topic, or you can learn about it by watching podcasts, reading blogs, and interacting on the forum.
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25 November 2024 | 31 replies
At this point with Whalen the fall guy for the criminal activity its my opinion that Clayton and wife while going through a great deal of drama and trauma being the focus of so much civil litigation and public assassination on social media will just live out their lives here in this country hardly any kind of exile..
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26 November 2024 | 46 replies
Maybe it's social media.
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5 December 2024 | 22 replies
There are some people coming back because there's a segment of the population who love living in the city and being walking distance to restaurants, stores etc.
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14 December 2024 | 101 replies
Don't get me wrong; I don't hate sales people, being in Media industry myself, I understand that selling is necessary because at the end of the day everyone has bills to pay.
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28 November 2024 | 9 replies
Quote from @JD Martin: I think it's a bigger problem now that we have social media.