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19 July 2018 | 12 replies
I know it'll be a game of trial and error in the beginning but I'm just looking for some tips from others that have gone through it to lessen the learning curve.
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3 July 2018 | 1 reply
You may even be able to find a free trial where you can get a lease and check out what they offer for free for a certain amount of days.
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30 July 2018 | 18 replies
Once you get leads consistently and are making money, then add another marketing strategy by trial and error.
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11 July 2018 | 6 replies
MailChimp is good to try I think they have a free trial.
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27 July 2018 | 23 replies
@Medi Sarwary I can share with you my experiance doing the BRRRR method (Actually I do a slight variation, the BARRRR method (A=Advertise, you do this for tax write of purposes if needed to write off more of the rehab cost right away.
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16 July 2018 | 1 reply
You need to calculate it as investment income - expenses (including annual taxes and income taxes on your gains) - increased equity (loan paydown - that is part of your profit, but it isn't part of your cashflow)If you are looking at this on only a monthly basis, you'll miss annual or semi-annual costs or seasonal variations.
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27 July 2018 | 9 replies
I think everyone's situation is different, and each person's journey in discovering the kind of investor they want to be can be discovered by trial & error, or education through partnering with someone or learning through the books, podcasts or forums available to you.
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2 August 2018 | 12 replies
But yeah seek out other title companies there's always a trial blazer who will do what others won't, and say can't be done!!
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16 June 2021 | 14 replies
If you wanted to get really freaky, you could try to come up with an equation dictating the outdoor temperature at which the furnace kicks in based on the ratio of natural gas prices to electricity prices, taking into consideration the variation in efficiency of the heat pump relative to temperatures(but that would be pretty challenging!
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5 August 2018 | 2 replies
You do not want to be their (test subject) for a trial run.You need to go over what if's and how expensive it would be to foreclose and what the timeline would be to get the property back and costs involved.