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20 April 2024 | 3 replies
I built a Google Forms and Sheets to track my expenditure and eventually used it balance my spending habits.
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21 April 2024 | 12 replies
Some options are paying in cash and pulling the cash out once the property can have an appraisal that will be marked "as is" (so no work needs to be done to the property to make it habitable).
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19 April 2024 | 6 replies
It's investment but it's not habitable as a residential at that point.
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19 April 2024 | 19 replies
The good markets with population growth and stable jobs have very few (if any) multi-family units in that price range and if they are listed in that range they will likely require a lot of work to become rent ready, or even habitable.
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20 April 2024 | 34 replies
I was not trying to harm any business.
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17 April 2024 | 13 replies
It's definitely a good idea to get in the habit of tracking expenses related to that property separately.
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18 April 2024 | 141 replies
It started with trying to get buff to get girls, then to help with mental health, and now I keep the habits because they provide stress relief, more energy, and more positive outlook.
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17 April 2024 | 17 replies
THIS WAS MEANT FOR TAX GEEKS ONLY.Brandon, I'm getting more cautious lately with peer discussions of technical details on BP, which used to be a habit of mine.
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15 April 2024 | 4 replies
While there is no harm in getting a contract notarized, I have never bothered with hundreds of contracts under my belt.
16 April 2024 | 18 replies
Ask what the reference's name is, how the reference knows them, and then ask open-ended questions to verify application details (how much is rent, how many people are living there, how much do they earn, what are their smoking habits, address, work performance, etc.).