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30 March 2014 | 1 reply
I'm not much of a checklist person by nature, but I'm learning!
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23 April 2014 | 22 replies
Hey @Aleksey Vinogradov , both myself and @Ankit Duggal let you know that in NJ if you try to raise the rent to market value, and that raise is 10% or greater than the current rent, the tenants can easily take you to court and the chances are greater than not the judge will rule against you because the raise will be considered unconscionable in nature.
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13 November 2018 | 65 replies
My focus with regard to environmental issues was naturally the closed gas station even though I had a clean tank letter from DEP dating back to when the tanks were removed...mistake!
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5 April 2014 | 23 replies
I was trying to see if construction workers could make it work but judging from the responses including that of Jon Klaus, this route may not work simply due to the seasonal nature of the job.
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4 April 2014 | 25 replies
When I asked her why she said "Taint natural to **** where you sleep"
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12 April 2014 | 14 replies
During one of our remodels, we used a "handy man" to complete some work that was mainly cosmetic in nature.
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5 April 2014 | 6 replies
I really like the old SMART goal acronym (see below) but it gets a little murky when it comes to real estate investing because of the multi-dimensional nature of our favorite asset class.For example, many investors list goals in terms of the number of units they want to own but the problem is that that doesn't necessarily lead to an income or wealth goal because there are so many ways to finance or structure the deal and rent – to – value ratio (RV ratios) vary dramatically based on geography and price range.I think the best way to approach this is to set in overall portfolio value goal and an income goal related to that overall asset value while disregarding financing options, at least initially.
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10 April 2014 | 12 replies
I've done many deals where I knew a seller was thinking they were going to "out smart" me, didn't happen, you can certainly play on a seller's greed, more like reflecting their sinful nature back at them.
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11 April 2014 | 24 replies
If the building is on the route of the new natural gas line, you might consider changing over - it has saved me thousands in Auburn!
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13 April 2014 | 3 replies
“Head of family” includes any natural person who is providing more than one-half of the support for a child or other dependent.(2)(a)?