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30 October 2012 | 9 replies
Most guys on the site here just do lipstick renovations for rental purposes, so my model does not work for them.
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12 November 2012 | 4 replies
Let's wipe the lipstick off this pig, people who buy with a lease/purchase genareally lack funds or credit or both.
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13 January 2013 | 16 replies
But all too often sellers in this business slap on some "tax benefit" lipstick on a pig of a rental.There is a way to use passive losses even if your AGI is too high.
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1 February 2013 | 17 replies
I'm sure, that in my area there must be at least 500 people willing to buy a house, add lipstick and sell it.
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2 August 2013 | 17 replies
(I wouldn't even call most of them "rehabs" because they are mostly just putting a little lipstick on and flipping.)
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9 March 2013 | 8 replies
I guess some would put the lipstick on a pig and screw the buyer for a profit.
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5 January 2022 | 7 replies
You see square footage along the top, and then the following definitions- Light -- Needs lipstick.
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26 February 2014 | 34 replies
That doesn't even pay for the lipstick for the pig.
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2 April 2014 | 11 replies
My initial rehab budget was about $50K which was more or less lipstick on a pig, get it looking nice and rentable.We're about halfway through the project and my current spend is over $50K.
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28 February 2015 | 5 replies
With more competition from OOs its hard to find any sort of "lipstick rehab" project.