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22 December 2012 | 11 replies
Going through leads and follow-up takes a tremendous amount of time.I am at the stage in my business that I want to grow but am honestly working 12 hour days.
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22 December 2012 | 8 replies
At that stage in our lives, our thinking was more whether we could afford a house, rather than how nice a house we should buy.
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19 January 2013 | 34 replies
Borrowing 96.5% for 30 years, makes sense to me at this stage of your RE career.
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28 December 2012 | 7 replies
I am currently working on getting my Home staging certification as well.
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5 February 2013 | 173 replies
Two uniformed "resource officers" at each one who are also responsible to cover the middle and elementary schools in an emergency as well.
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27 December 2012 | 10 replies
At my current stage and concern about the U.S economy and future, I'm looking to preserve and protect what I have and incur little risk of huge loss.
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29 December 2012 | 8 replies
It takes time to learn all of these things, and since you likely have an idea about a lot of them, it makes the early stages of investing much easier. 2. what priority shud one consider in knowing their area?
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8 January 2013 | 15 replies
We don't allocate a specific percentage to repairs and CAPEX - just make sure that we have an adequate amount of liquidity at all times.In the future, when there are more properties, we will break things out more, but at this stage of the game (2 properties, 3 units total) it seems like overkill.
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31 December 2012 | 2 replies
Hello All,I am the beginning stages of purchasing my first commercial/residential unit.
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2 January 2013 | 45 replies
The inspection timelines are basic elementary tasks.