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25 January 2025 | 25 replies
If you buy real estate, you will spend hours and days and weeks and months of your life dealing with it… Home repairs, guests,… An investment really has to be pretty amazing to sacrifice all that time for itThe houses I own I bought many years ago at dirt cheap prices and dirt cheap mortgage rates.
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31 December 2024 | 57 replies
Quote from @Alecia Loveless: @Natalia Perlova Absolutly no to the Sunday repair.
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26 December 2024 | 8 replies
Just a heads up, your rate will spike going from 75% to 80% and you'll need at LEAST a 1:1 ratio.
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31 December 2024 | 3 replies
Zoning says that it is a repair service shop, excluding automobiles, any idea if leasing out storage space would be permitted?
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26 December 2024 | 27 replies
One bit of advice where you can be ahead of the curve is to write down your screening criteria for possible tenants and commit to following it.
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3 January 2025 | 18 replies
If it sucks for you, you can sell and be further ahead than you already are today.
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19 January 2025 | 51 replies
A few others have called out Hemlane, who appear also quite responsive here on BP and also offer a degree of repair/work order management baked right into their middle/upper tier offerings (versus having to bolt-on as with RentRedi + Latchel).
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4 January 2025 | 11 replies
Additionally, transitioning certain activities, such as maintenance and repairs, to be conducted directly through the business entity could strengthen your position for claiming deductions.
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14 January 2025 | 329 replies
Or enter "for repairs" and take photographs of expensive new stuff for court...but they may be paying down credit cards.
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4 January 2025 | 12 replies
Market might be competitive but there is angles to stand out depending on what you are comfortable and able to handle, such as waiving an appraisal contingency, limitng inspection rights and time frames, closing time frames, allowing seller to stay-post closing, taking on difficult tenants, buying properties that might need repairs, etc.