4 July 2022 | 25 replies
He's been given several options for purchasing the car that may be exploiting loopholes or circumventing the spirit of the letter he signed but are unlikely to rise to the level of bank fraud.
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3 May 2019 | 15 replies
Tenant advocates announced recently they have enough signatures for a ballot initiative to repeal the Costa-Hawkins Act, which could open the floodgates for extreme rent control in California and put some landlords right out of business.Why Rent Control Doesn’t WorkWhile the idea of rent control may sound like a nice one (help keep real estate affordable for families who otherwise would be forced to move), the concept is, by nature, easy to exploit.
6 January 2020 | 24 replies
As an economics minor, you learn that some countries naturally have a comparative advantage in producing goods, which means that they can make them more efficiently and for less money, this could be due to negative factors such as the exploitation of the workers in that country or it can be as simple as they have more technologically advanced procedures then us and and greater economies of scale which enable them to produce goods more efficiently.
29 May 2021 | 103 replies
Predatory laws protect people from being exploited.
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10 April 2023 | 61 replies
There're just so many opportunities in real estate to be exploited as the market has a lot of inefficiencies.In our market, med. avg house is 1.5 mil and price swings between high and low comp PSF is $400 sqft.While cost of labour and material supply is the same, regardless it's $300k house or $3.0 mil house.
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31 August 2016 | 25 replies
When people ask me about it, I tell them find a niche that you can be very good at and exploit it when others are focused on other priorities.
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6 January 2016 | 1 reply
I live and invest in West Philadelphia.I understand the bidding process and the different rounds of bidding (non profit, owner occupant, investor), but I'd like to know if there are loop holes or back doors to the process that can be exploited to help me win more bids.Thanks!
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14 January 2016 | 1 reply
I live and invest in West Philadelphia.I understand the bidding process and the different rounds of bidding (non profit, owner occupant, investor), but I'd like to know if there are loop holes or back doors to the process that can be exploited to help me win more bids.Thanks!
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13 March 2023 | 7 replies
Lately STR co-hosts have been exploiting a loophole by offering limited services like scheduling cleaners, handling complaints etc. while explicitly avoiding any leasing, marketing, or money transactions/ activities which would require a license.
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9 July 2020 | 88 replies
In markets where sellers seem to be all over the place in pricing, where wishful thinking dominates or where there are a lot of FSBO's and/or rookie agents whose market analysis leaves something to be desired, opportunities plainly exist to exploit market pricing inefficiencies through lowball offers.