30 October 2024 | 94 replies
My advice is focus on getting your first property: buy the worst house on the best block you can afford and fix it up to the quality of the surrounding houses to force appreciation and build equity quickly while your housemates pay most of your mortgage.
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17 October 2024 | 4 replies
You can't show properties when you are working so the best advice is that no matter how much time you have to commit to real estate, be full-time in your part-time, meaning square away the time and put everything into those time blocks.
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15 October 2024 | 6 replies
It will definitely be in your favor to know the block by block areas because you can be on one street that has middle class working people and the next street over having riff raff.I'm in Delhi Township in the Westside if you ever want to network!
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15 October 2024 | 4 replies
Nothing that is remotely concrete.
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16 October 2024 | 5 replies
**Local Community Development Programs**: Cleveland might have community development block grants or local initiatives aimed at improving rental properties in specific neighborhoods, particularly if you’re providing affordable housing.7.
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15 October 2024 | 5 replies
Your messages will start getting blocked when you try to send more than 100 texts a day.
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15 October 2024 | 5 replies
Often one block is fine and then the next is bad so it's definitely an area you want to visit and research closely before investing.
17 October 2024 | 6 replies
If you have never been to Philadelphia or lived there, trying to invest there is going to be very hard unless you are planning to go multiple times to understand the block dynamics of the areas you are interested in.
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17 October 2024 | 21 replies
I think the biggest block to getting anything like this accepted is building codes.
10 October 2024 | 0 replies
Some areas allow for your investment mobile home to sit atop a pier and beam foundation, while others allow concrete block supports atop crushed rock.