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4 February 2025 | 17 replies
The top agents would be charging like attorneys and make more money then the 2-3 percent they would get from the seller.
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26 January 2025 | 3 replies
Cost to Rent vs Own and Return to Work PoliciesThis can mostly be attributed to the massive increase in home prices, particularly from 2010 to today, making people opt to rent for longer, especially today in the elevated rate and home price environment making renting the substantially cheaper option, on top of historically low inventory to choose from.
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25 January 2025 | 8 replies
The only reason to look into franchises that flip houses or do renovations pre-sale is because you have existing business that you could leverage on top of this to add more clientele.
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17 January 2025 | 17 replies
If you're planning to rehab properties for rental or flipping, a hard money lender might be the right fit.
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6 February 2025 | 7 replies
If their rudeness etc causes me to not be able to do my job (they yell at refuse to let me in when I've posted notice), then that's a violation for interfering with management duties, on top of the violations for disturbing their neighbors, housekeeping violations, failures to report maintenance, etc..
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17 January 2025 | 14 replies
Generic replacement parts that fit American Standard can be found anywhere.Don't buy the cheap $90 toilets.
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8 February 2025 | 80 replies
On top of that, I have one guy to deal with, not 10.
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5 February 2025 | 14 replies
So rather than go around in circles trying to fit a square peg in a round hole, I wanted to be able to work with investors who had either outlook.
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12 January 2025 | 0 replies
It was honestly luck, I didn't know much about real estate I just knew I needed a house that was unappealing to others to be able to buy it and have it fit in our budget.
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22 January 2025 | 4 replies
.✅ Do your research to learn what is realistic.Spend time really considering what type of business is going to be the best fit for you based on your experience and how you want to spend your time once you are the owner.