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11 January 2025 | 6 replies
A couple quick points to some of the questions you raised.- Don't pay cash, leverage.
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6 January 2025 | 13 replies
Within a couple of days, our neighbor said that they smelled weed from the backyard.
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5 January 2025 | 23 replies
I used to be a landlord and flipper in New Zealand until a couple of years ago when I liquidated my portfolio and moved out here to Pittsburgh.
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19 January 2025 | 55 replies
Called in a couple of times and had my question answered there.
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12 January 2025 | 28 replies
Some come in for a couple weeks some for a couple weeks that turns into months.
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11 January 2025 | 7 replies
So like $200,000 (donation) x 2.5=$500,000(deduction) these can also be used over a couple of years for deductions going forward.
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6 January 2025 | 11 replies
I got bit a couple years ago and went from a 6% rate to almost 10% rate.
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27 January 2025 | 56 replies
Interesting as there were a couple of posts a year ago after the widely distributed article in the media essentially calling it a STR crash.
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3 January 2025 | 8 replies
Apparantly that didn't work out for them either as they sold all their properties a couple of months later.
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12 January 2025 | 13 replies
I just did a deal very similar to this with a couple houses.