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27 January 2025 | 29 replies
I believe coaching does work, but I also believe that 90% of the coaches are better at marketing / self promotion than they are at doing deals.
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7 January 2025 | 0 replies
First off I took the realtors suggestion and listed with the property management company he promoted to me.
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14 January 2025 | 15 replies
Reason being is that it allows you to invest in other products other than they offer, so that's why they don't promote these .
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9 January 2025 | 10 replies
Then you can avoid the self promotion issue.
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7 February 2025 | 41 replies
Prefer Dayton, Akron, Columbus.Tennessee - is a lower property tax state and the properties cash flow pretty well.
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25 January 2025 | 26 replies
Look at what high interest credit cards you can get rid of, pay down, or move to zero interest promotion cards for say 15 months etc.
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4 February 2025 | 10 replies
I do pretty decent for my age, and I live at home still, so I've been saving up a lot of money.
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6 February 2025 | 5 replies
Sub 100k is pretty common still.
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23 January 2025 | 56 replies
The training is pretty thorough focused on lending hard/private money to other fix and flip investors, or for my own deals for which I could pay myself as the loan broker.
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3 February 2025 | 47 replies
As@Chris Seveney suggested, being a private money lender can be pretty passive once you find the operator and asset you feel comfortable with.