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25 February 2013 | 6 replies
I am new to REI and became a landlord / investor by accident.
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18 November 2016 | 3 replies
Or have an extreme accident that cripples your ability to work and bring in those extra couple hundred bucks to float those properties?
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27 January 2017 | 14 replies
Unfortunately he was involved in a car accident on 1/14/2017 and lost his life.
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9 April 2020 | 53 replies
@Brian Garrett hey I found this thread by accident, very interesting stuff.
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19 July 2015 | 3 replies
So I found BP by accident and honestly can't remember how I ended up here.
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26 July 2014 | 25 replies
I've had a number of people ask me "why" and then attempt to tell me their most horrific horror stories...smh
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11 August 2014 | 13 replies
I literally found out about real estate investing by accident on youtube.
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13 September 2016 | 15 replies
The only thing that came back in that other than her 9K civil judgment (against her) for a car accident was the fact that the system did not have any records of residential addresses for them for the past TEN years.
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12 May 2018 | 1 reply
This plan was for a perfect world, but last year I had a car accident in which I injured my spinal cord and left me in a wheelchair.
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23 June 2013 | 7 replies
I stumbled into the construction field by accident, having graduated at the height of the "Great Recession" I found the opportunities in my preferred field of Commercial RE Development very scarce.