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17 January 2025 | 11 replies
(Then we’d just start a commune, I guess.)The Setup: Living My Best (Small) LifeI bought a 2BD/1BA home with a private efficiency studio.
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21 January 2025 | 11 replies
II wonder if it would stand up in court that they could force you to use their contractual payment requirements on your own Private property.
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3 January 2025 | 26 replies
Good luck, you are a busy man with school, family and baseball.Likely your best bet is house hacking (if your partner and child are willing to share housing).
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29 January 2025 | 12 replies
Meet-ups via local groups or via zoom calls or private REI clubs/groups.Asking a seasoned agent in each city/county as well as a Banker/Loan officer will also help put a plan together.
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23 December 2024 | 4 replies
pretty small hurdle to have a good win as a private lender just get paid as agreed.now equity participation loans those can spin the needle pretty well ..
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29 January 2025 | 25 replies
Brandon Turner talked about it in his 2nd book, The book on real estate investing, he got a private money lender for one of his first deals from someone he went to church with.
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5 February 2025 | 38 replies
A post on the official Norada Capital Management website from 2022 (attached screenshots in addendum), boldly states the following:“Norada Capital Management offers investors opportunities to invest in Promissory Notes with fixed rates of return ranging from 12% up to 17.5% per year,” ( Link ).In explaining the use of proceeds from the promissory notes—specifically the entities Norada Capital Management, a private equity firm, supposedly lends to in order to generate these high annual rates, the company states that:“Three of those five categories that our company invests in as a private equity firm include e-commerce-based businesses very lucrative area, especially if you’re in the right area of e-commerce.
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4 January 2025 | 2 replies
I'm betting he'd drive to that area.
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30 December 2024 | 4 replies
(I know a lot of investors who are doing this, but I've been surprised to find out that it's a new concept that others haven't considered.)The more units, the better in this scenario because you can hedge your bets with more units.
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14 January 2025 | 15 replies
Very unlikely unless you find a private lender/individual to do this as a one-off.