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15 March 2021 | 129 replies
You're also going to find quite a few landlords here who have experienced living well below the poverty line in their childhoods and that is a large part of why they choose to go into real estate, especially affordable housing, C-class properties.
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4 April 2017 | 7 replies
I returned to the states in July of 2013 and went to working hauling crude oil in the west Texas oilfield, which brought me back to my childhood roots.
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24 December 2014 | 11 replies
He was nearly bankrupt by the end of the game.It took me back to my childhood and my many games of Monopoly.
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21 August 2023 | 2 replies
I have a descent job in the insurance industry and my wife is an Early Childhood Educator.
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20 August 2022 | 0 replies
So street I grew up on has been rezoned, and needless to say my childhood home is getting torn down.Like any investor, I am deeply saddened because if anyone is going to tear down my childhood home and get rich building apartments, it should be me.
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19 January 2011 | 3 replies
I'm actually taking my first trip to Florida since my childhood this year as well Jon . . .
22 February 2023 | 8 replies
I have been offered a job at exp realty in Massachusetts but due to a traumatic childhood in the state I moved to Europe when I was 18 I’m now 26.
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4 March 2012 | 6 replies
I grew up on a septic all my childhood in the northwest (live in texas now) and we never had ours serviced.
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2 August 2023 | 8 replies
I live in Florida, but I mostly house hunt in Kentucky because of my family and childhood memories there, I’m more passionate about it.
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23 April 2018 | 27 replies
Slight adaptation from The Princess Bride.