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7 July 2020 | 21 replies
Creating rental income defeats its own purpose if you are still paying rent to someone else.
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20 July 2020 | 4 replies
This completely defeats the purpose.There are exceptions to rule number 2.
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18 July 2020 | 1 reply
You will almost certainly be asked to sign personal guaranty's for any loans you get, thereby defeating a lot of the reasons for forming an LLC.
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17 December 2020 | 2 replies
They will try and use the purchase price as the rehabbed price for a certain period of time.. totally defeating the BRRRR method.
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23 July 2020 | 3 replies
This defeats/minimizes the suggestion of benchmarking.
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7 August 2020 | 4 replies
That kind of defeats the purpose of using Delayed Financing doesn't it?
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31 July 2020 | 29 replies
That defeats the purpose of the LLC.Note, it’s not that you have a commercial property.
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22 July 2020 | 1 reply
Hey BP Community, honestly feel really defeated right now because I had a deal of the century which woulda been my first deal but it fell through.
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30 July 2020 | 4 replies
The caveat is you can't invest your self directed account into your own deal because that would give you direct access to your funds which defeats the purpose.
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31 July 2020 | 8 replies
Sure it will make the tenants happy which is important but you could end up losing money which defeats the purpose of updating and having a rental.