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21 January 2025 | 35 replies
The fact of the matter is that real estate is a long game and expenses will come up.
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27 December 2024 | 4 replies
So you will need to have skin in the game.
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30 January 2025 | 47 replies
But it's in your interests to make sure the property value makes sense and the borrower has skin in the game.
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19 December 2024 | 5 replies
I think diversity is great in a portfolio but so is scaling the area you are currently doing well in.
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21 January 2025 | 74 replies
I have personally advertised in Realty 411 its a real publication and as I stated Linda I have know for over a decade personally and I am real I have 50 years in the real estate game..
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23 January 2025 | 52 replies
Don't hate the playa, hate the game.
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30 December 2024 | 7 replies
I would guess that you have little or no experience running any kind of STR, and now want to get that experience on the back of someone else's investment, with little or no personal skin in the game, and that's not a good way to build an investment portfolio.
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25 December 2024 | 3 replies
For me, I’ve been testing a few different methods recently, but I’m always looking for new ideas to take my wholesaling game to the next level.
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1 January 2025 | 12 replies
That way you’ve got some skin in the game, and the tenants will be less likely to protest that the other tenants are using more electricity or gas.