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4 February 2025 | 1 reply
Creative Freedom: You get to design and transform spaces, which can be personally fulfilling.The Bad: Where Flippers Lose Money⚠️ Underestimating Repair Costs: Surprise structural issues, contractor delays, and material price spikes can kill your budget.⚠️ Market Changes: A hot market today might cool down before you sell, which reduces the profit.⚠️ Financing Challenges: Hard money loans carry high interest rates that nibble into the bottom line.Unrealistic timelines: If you think you're going to be in and out in 60 days, you're sadly mistaken-most flips take longer than expected.Real Talk: Is Fix and Flip Still Worth It?
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10 February 2025 | 24 replies
Quote from @Frank Ritzert: Ron LeGrand recently spoke at a Jacksonville REIA meeting in January 2025 after Cameron Gaskill backed out last minute due to health issues.
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16 January 2025 | 8 replies
See, the majority of profit in real estate is NOT made by below market purchases.
8 February 2025 | 10 replies
I have the same issue, I canceled few months ago, but got billed again... this is scam
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20 January 2025 | 15 replies
There were many other questions when I read over the three different term sections that needed agreement to continue with the service, but I never got a response from support on the major noncommercial use clause.Plus, if over 2,600 people are using the product, how many times do you think an agent is going to get messages from various investors through the platform?
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11 January 2025 | 12 replies
It’s less than 15 minutes by car from two major universities (Towson & Morgan) and just a 7-minute walk from a shuttle that services both campuses.I plan to rent the property by the room, targeting mainly college students due to its proximity to the schools.
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28 January 2025 | 6 replies
The main issue I have is contemplating the baloon payment at the end of the 2nd year and refinancing the remainder with a bank...how can I compute that into calculating the IRR?
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21 January 2025 | 59 replies
Real Estate Investing is for the vast majority of time not classical "investing", it's a business.
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12 February 2025 | 7 replies
Then track the date a maintenance issue was reported, description of the problem, who it was assigned to, when it's estimated to be completed, when it was completed, date/amount paid, etc.It doesn't have to be fancy.