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19 April 2020 | 1 reply
Not to rain on your parade, Gabriel, but it is almost always a bad idea to borrow money from family and mix business and blood.
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10 May 2020 | 3 replies
Everything I can find on HUD.gov or otherwise with google defines immediate family as: (by blood, in-law, or marriage) parent, child, or sibling -- or spouse of any of these.
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14 May 2020 | 11 replies
Although my blood is quite watered down, lol.
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30 April 2020 | 3 replies
Do you have specific ones that you've had to learn the hard way, aka that are "written in blood"?
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16 May 2020 | 65 replies
The part most of the blogs forget is all the blood, sweat and tears in the middle!
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11 May 2020 | 1 reply
I believe the adopted child's share is equally divided amongst the adopted siblings but I'm not sure if the biological siblings become involved or if there is a split in % passed down as there is with half siblings receiving 50% of what a full blood sibling would receive.
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7 May 2020 | 10 replies
From what I've seen in history, the people that pour their blood, sweat, and tears into this country have a tendency to be ignored.
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12 January 2020 | 60 replies
Maybe you show up with 3000 and now they want 4000If they’re willing to shakedown blood relatives, then I have little confidence they’ll be gone in February.
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14 January 2020 | 8 replies
Hard work, blood, sweat, tears, whatever it takes, I'm in.
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24 January 2017 | 30 replies
So far you've risked nothing but you have an opportunity you can leverage into meaningful experience that will help you next time if this one doesn't add up.I've seen situations like this where the house represented such bad blood, the seller wanted to lose money to punish his ex.Good luck!