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27 December 2024 | 8 replies
My only concern with renting it out room by room in Philadelphia is my safety as my roommates could be psychopaths.
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30 December 2024 | 12 replies
If you want to keep your options open to access more deals, it’s worth having an honest conversation with the agent about your concerns.
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25 December 2024 | 3 replies
I wouldn’t be too concerned with this.
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27 December 2024 | 13 replies
However, a lot of concerns can be mitigated with looking at their past rental behavior in a lot of different settings.
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27 December 2024 | 9 replies
However, a lot of concerns can be mitigated with looking at their past rental behavior in a lot of different settings.
1 January 2025 | 24 replies
Verifying last 2 years of rental history and income extremely important to find the “best of the worst”.Make sure you understand the Class of properties you are looking at and the corresponding results to expect.The City of Detroit has 183 Neighborhoods we’ve analyzed.PM us if you’d like to discuss this logical approach in greater detail!
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1 January 2025 | 12 replies
Verifying last 2 years of rental history and income extremely important to find the “best of the worst”.Make sure you understand the Class of properties you are looking at and the corresponding results to expect.The City of Detroit has 183 Neighborhoods we’ve analyzed.DM us if you’d like to discuss this logical approach in greater detail!
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25 December 2024 | 12 replies
I'm also concerned about the liability that I might be exposed to here by allowing what appears to be a business to operate out of my rental.
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3 January 2025 | 26 replies
When 99% of transactions have commissions above 2%, it's essentially a fixed rate, not a truly negotiable one.I respectfully disagree with the concern about "buyers that don't have money to pay a commission to buyer agents."
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22 December 2024 | 105 replies
He should be concerned about his current investors instead of finding new ones.