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26 December 2024 | 2 replies
Take a copy of the lease, payment history and if you have one your receipt book.
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3 January 2025 | 10 replies
I personally did not subscribe to paying for coaching in the initial phases, i believe there is plenty of free content and also books out there that can coach the early steps.
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11 December 2024 | 2 replies
. :)The best book I've read is "The Unofficial Guide to Real Estate Investing" by Spencer Strauss.
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11 January 2025 | 420 replies
Gill's book, but if it is proposing the same scheme as Mr.
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26 December 2024 | 6 replies
They don't write books, do seminars or post on social media.
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28 December 2024 | 12 replies
Plus if you have good systems in place, you should be spending much less time on each booking than what your cleaner spends cleaning it.
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23 December 2024 | 3 replies
They force you to take instant bookings without any ability to screen guests.
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6 January 2025 | 14 replies
Yes, the entire greater economy as a whole affected by this, with this housing just one sub-part of it, would be another large contentious topic taking entire books...
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2 January 2025 | 25 replies
Whereas with an STR, even with clear english detailing any issues up front, is often booked on a whim with an overload of information digested in a short period of time.
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9 January 2025 | 21 replies
Not trying to sound cheesy but I am an overenthusiastic person about real estate and when I obsessed over learning & learning I eventually read that book half way through before I couldn't help myself any longer...