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27 June 2024 | 3 replies
Ignoring Hidden Costs: Consider maintenance, property taxes, and utilities in your budget.3.
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27 June 2024 | 26 replies
@V.G Jasonyes - the variable in a lot of these posts is often the poster, and not the deal.should a brand new investor with $0 buy a random house in Ohio that needs $37K of cleverly hidden Capex because it will "cash flow" $117 a month if that Capex is ignored?
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25 June 2024 | 10 replies
They will supposedly first pay you back your initial earnest money with interest within four weeks of signing their NEW RELEASE AGREEMENTS as a show of good faith if you get in touch with their attorney (send me a private message so I can send you instructions to get in contact with their attorney), and then the remaining outstanding deposit with interest within two months after that.
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26 June 2024 | 11 replies
Then you instruct the current custodian to transfer funds directly to your new account at the new custodian.
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27 June 2024 | 28 replies
I would be more than happy to start out signing up for your free membership; but I don't want to get bogged down with lots more reading, and listening; other than step by step instructions to finding and closing deals; via where to go for auctions, online sourses, what I need to make sure to understand; etc.
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24 June 2024 | 0 replies
Purchase price: $177,000 Cash invested: $50,000 - Single-family home in a Residential area near the University of Rochester- Purchased flipped home without inspection, many costly hidden issues revealed after closing - Currently rented for $2,200.
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24 June 2024 | 14 replies
They will supposedly first pay you back your initial earnest money with interest within four weeks of signing their NEW RELEASE AGREEMENTS as a show of good faith if you get in touch with their attorney (send me a private message so I can send you instructions to get in contact with their attorney), and then the remaining outstanding deposit with interest within two months after that.
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25 June 2024 | 20 replies
@Marc ShinMake sure to double whatever they tell you it will cost and take 2x as long and then have someone to come repair all the shoddy work that was done.Hopefully you have working bathrooms otherwise you may have some surprises hidden behind your walls
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2 July 2024 | 108 replies
I have worked on those cases, in major civil rights violation cases, where someone who spent 30 years in prison (because of corrupt, malicious, criminal prosecutors and cops) sued the states and received monetary compensation in tens of millions of dollars, when their innocence was proven by DNA tests (willfully hidden by prosecutors, with evidence tampering and witness coaching), or by confessions of real criminals who committed the crime that innocent person was imprisoned for.