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5 December 2016 | 3 replies
Matthew charges around 650-675 with Private service and Kathy's firm charges $310 total from beginning to end which is pretty awesome.I'm currently in the middle of a trial with Matthew so hopefully it will turn out well.
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14 August 2020 | 5 replies
Those type of sites are generally not free though, although you can usually get a free trial to test them out.Best of luck.
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10 January 2017 | 5 replies
I discoved an amazing thing......I started to make more money, work less and had time to go to real estate seminars, buy tapes and books and build a savings, Oh...... a supportive wife was a big help........married now this Wednesday will be 47 years.I'll be 75 years old January 16, and as I look back over the many years of Trial and Terror, I don't think I'd want to start over learning to be an investor.What I didn't have and new investors have today makes this business easier; a computer, cell phone, Internet, Bigger Pockets and lots of folks to render help and encouragement.
18 January 2018 | 19 replies
To come up and speak about some trials and tribulations they went through to get to where they are now.
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16 February 2012 | 17 replies
We are nowhere near a workout of residential foreclosures.Nationally banks have 300,000 residential reo's with another 700,000 bank owned but not yet listed for sale.About another 1,500,000 to 2,000,000 residential properties in pre-foreclosure that are short sales or are just 30 days behind all the way to having failed trial loan mods.Most of these properties will be foreclosed as they work through the system or failed loan mod to BK to eventually foreclosure.So in my opinion we are about 3 years away to work through most of the residential stuff.You have to remember that distress is not evenly spread out across the U.S.There are markets that have continued to go up and have zero to little foreclosures.Then you have the speculative markets that are first to rise and first to fall with wild swings in fluctuation.Then you have market that dip and recover but the decline is not as severe and is spread out over time.Whether you wait could depend on your strategy to buy properties.If you are long term buy and hold properties might dip a little before hitting bottom but that gain might be offset by higher future interest rates.If you are paying all cash then waiting and having the interest rate climb by 200 basis points but buying for 50k less might be a winning combo.You have to really explain your game plan more.Investing is not a one size fits all approach.
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5 August 2014 | 3 replies
We learned from trial and error. 3 of our houses are located across the country.
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1 April 2023 | 11 replies
The truth is, you could read 100 books and still not know enough because certain things need to be learned through trial-and-error.
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17 May 2023 | 14 replies
The truth is, you could read 100 books and still not know enough because certain things need to be learned through trial-and-error.
15 July 2017 | 10 replies
There is also a trial test on their website.
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11 November 2016 | 12 replies
You keep going by trial and error until you get to the price point that you can most economically hire the work done the way you want it.You get what you shoot for.