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21 January 2025 | 5 replies
If you're still interested, take a trip to the site once ground has been broken.The flashy marketing material for a new development is great, but don't put your money at risk for something that's likely to vaporize.
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26 January 2025 | 30 replies
IE motivate them for money.
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24 January 2025 | 13 replies
. - We always recommend buying your first rental locally if possible and DIY managing to learn as much as possible before investing OOS.2) Lots of crooks and incompetents in the PMC world:( They both cost you money.- As already stated, you'll have a small portfolio.
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19 January 2025 | 5 replies
The only thing we can think of is he deals with a lot of international trade and money and maybe it’s OFAC we just get a scripted message every time we talk to someone so we got lawyers involved.
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2 February 2025 | 6 replies
We utilized the down payment program and use our own money to fix it up.
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28 January 2025 | 7 replies
Co-living I like a bit more because you have less money needed for furnishing a property and CO laws allow it in the major cities unlike STRs.
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23 January 2025 | 6 replies
The predicament we are in is the property is not in the condition to charge that much for rent and we would also leave a lot of money in the deal once we refinance if we cannot get in there to fix it up.
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24 January 2025 | 36 replies
Avantstay's services cost money because they provide value.
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31 January 2025 | 6 replies
Hard money for acquisition and I financed the rehab myself.
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4 February 2025 | 1 reply
I start by telling them we have a lot of money tied up in the property, and we've been burned by folks that wanted us to believe the best of them.