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19 December 2024 | 22 replies
Use the top three or four discriminators so applicants can screen themselves.Then you need to have clear screening criteria yourself.
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19 January 2025 | 269 replies
Originallyy posted by @Riaan Knoetze:Considering these COVID-times and policies around group sizes, how does everyone feel about a Zoom meetup?
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23 January 2025 | 30 replies
She lacks the understanding that there are multiple GP partners involved in larger sized deals.
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19 January 2025 | 354 replies
The biggest risk I see is one decent size hiccup and they could be toast.
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12 January 2025 | 185 replies
Given the size and scope of things, and "community" one could readily argue addition of organizer and head of a Criminal Syndicate.
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24 December 2024 | 9 replies
Home was nice 4 Bed 3Bth under $550K with a decent size lot/yard and it only required 5% down as a New primary.Now I am not sure how big of a home you need but as you can see $100K covers much more in a scenario like that one above.
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20 January 2025 | 242 replies
As one who personally had a medium sized HML company going into 2007 2008 with 600 loans on my books and by 2010 went through a massive re value melt down all of us in that business got hammered for us we started in 2001 and by 2010 had to basically shut down let go 90% of staff and spent 3 to 4 years hemorrhaging our net worth's to make sure our banks got paid ( which to my personal financial situation was devastating) Most of my peers went out of business completely ( BK) I did not but by 2011 I was basically starting over.
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9 February 2025 | 173 replies
One of the best ways to start investing imo, especially for young people who can be flexible on location, unit size, etc.3- look for properties with value add- renovate and/or reconfiguring units, maybe adding an ADU in basement or garage conversion, upside in rent increases via tenant turnover due to natural attrition, buy outs, etc.
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23 December 2024 | 7 replies
i.e. longer than normal vacancy, bad tenant screening, poor maintenance, skipped rent payments, etc.There could be a handful of reasons why it lost it's ability to cash flow.
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4 January 2025 | 28 replies
About the size of a package of crackers, in rectangle form.