18 June 2018 | 6 replies
Too risky to trust your money to any automated system.The sales comparable approach to value will dominate regardless of cash flow if it's a single family home or 1-4 units and is being financed.
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28 July 2018 | 21 replies
I did call the lawyers handling it and they couldn't revela anything about the property BUT yes they did indicate I could cal the office and an automated recording option would state upset price the night before.
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19 September 2018 | 9 replies
Five days into her stay we get automated notifications from VRBO that the payment had been reversed and they took the money out of our account.
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25 November 2018 | 35 replies
Paul really knows his stuff, and he makes real estate investing a science, which is to say he puts a repeatable system into place to "automate" his investing.I really enjoyed this one!
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18 June 2018 | 3 replies
Do not rely on automated valuations for quite a number of reasons, not the least of which that the valuation algorithms can't "see" inside pictures for the condition of the house.
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13 May 2019 | 9 replies
I live in the bay area and will be investing out of state (OOS), I know by reading in the forum that Midwest is the place to go, I originally planned to go to Indianapolis however the multi family houses that I encountered are on the older side as such will have a higher cost of maintenance, the realtor I am working with setup my automated search in the 46201, 203, 205 ranging in the $120 - 190K range.
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30 April 2019 | 54 replies
I did receive an automated phone call from a local inspector to come and take them down after a period but once i did and alerted them to that they stopped calling me.
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21 June 2018 | 1 reply
Edit: Shoot, can't believe I didn't think to add this as it fits my interests, but I think the Smart Home/Automation trend is really cool and hope to be able to get more involved with that.
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18 September 2022 | 23 replies
From fully automated Kiosks (an ATM looking thing that rents the unit, sets up auto billing on tenants bank or credit card, dispenses a lock if the new tenant wants to buy one etc), to smart phone Apps that do the same thing (except vend a lock) to 24 hour USA based call centers that will manage the business and rent the units for those customers who want a human to talk to (and the Kiosk software, smarphone App software, and call center sofware can all be seemlessly integrated within your business management software.
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8 June 2019 | 10 replies
Maybe you will find my new website in a search for DOWN PAYMENT ASSISTANCE FREE HELP in google IF I get the system automated.