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11 February 2025 | 1681 replies
The price of the home was about 2.5X their annual salary at that time.this is such simple math..
3 January 2025 | 8 replies
Common fees will include a set-up fee, a leasing fee for each turnover or a lease renewal fee, marking up maintenance, retaining late fees, and more.
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1 January 2025 | 5 replies
Blocks away from Seton University, one with 11 bedrooms and 4 baths and the other with 14 bedrooms and 4 baths.Both show signs of deferred maintenance but one more so than the other.
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19 January 2025 | 41 replies
Win, Lose or Draw he's still in the records from your filing;-)Housing Court Judge, speaks to us at MassRealEstate dot net annually.
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14 January 2025 | 329 replies
Why pay rent when your landlord gives you free housing, free maintenance team, free mortgage, free electricity, free water, free trash?
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6 January 2025 | 17 replies
4 houses: value $6.5MEquity: $2.8Mpositive cash flow after debt, maintenance, taxes: $2000/modo I have additional capital to add?
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30 December 2024 | 3 replies
Confirm that the warranty applies to the type of property you own and consider whether the annual cost and service call fees make sense compared to just handling repairs yourself or using your own trusted contractors.
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2 January 2025 | 1 reply
But my impression is that many landlords skip this, I was in fact asked point blank by maintenance management during the repairs process why I opened up this proverbial “can of worms.”
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1 January 2025 | 3 replies
I use 10% for maintenance & cap ex, 8% for vacancy (but not on STR because the estimate from Airdna includes vacancy), 10% for management.
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20 December 2024 | 2 replies
Not calculating maintenance expense could end up being a nightmare.I always estimate (using either the 50%, 1% or square footage rule) the annual maintenance / first year of maintenance fees for a ALL rental property.