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15 October 2024 | 5 replies
So I have been researching making an extra principal payment every year and how it will cut down your mortgage to between 21-23 years.
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15 October 2024 | 8 replies
Pencils have been down and large investors have been focused on cutting costs, increasing renewal rates and improving operations.
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14 October 2024 | 9 replies
Quote from @Stuart Udis: Below is a cut/paste response from me in 2023.
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15 October 2024 | 8 replies
While this doesn’t cut out the middleman completely, you can find excellent investment opportunities for flipping houses at a much better price than you’ll find on public real estate markets.
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17 October 2024 | 20 replies
If not, buying something random and making one trip there for the inspection isn't going to cut it, and will not protect you from buying a bad deal.Can you pick a market within a couple hours of you instead?
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19 October 2024 | 25 replies
Federal land in the middle of nowhere does not solve the crisis, crisis can be solved by smarter planning, better use of land and getting politicians to cut through the red tape where costs to develop are astronomical.
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15 October 2024 | 14 replies
I'm not saying to cut corners, just prioritize based on the list and go from there.
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16 October 2024 | 10 replies
I made and mailed all my yellow letters by hand to cut and save on costs.
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14 October 2024 | 3 replies
Also, it would cut back on other tenants "encroaching" over imaginary lines of the other tenants spaces.
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17 October 2024 | 14 replies
The tenant pool is definitely cut to a fraction and many applicants you can find all have different lease time frames.