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5 September 2016 | 17 replies
No heat, no air, which has to make for an uncomfortable life.
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23 September 2017 | 9 replies
If it not easy you should consider a career change.Lastly stop your daily routines. have lunch at different places, get gas at different gas stations, different stores, different everything.
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4 October 2018 | 1 reply
Mix up your routine so you're not at the same place daily.
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22 January 2019 | 35 replies
New guy has kept up the “return to sender” routine but... apparently the rent was late cuz we got a shop-a-holic.
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12 February 2019 | 96 replies
I routinely review tile installation products that are sent to me for free by Home Depot vendors.
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24 March 2022 | 89 replies
Being newbies, we didn't realize that homes of a certain age most likely have clay pipes and would need a sewage line inspection added on to the routine home inspection. $8,000 later.... we will never forget this lesson.
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23 July 2014 | 4 replies
It was a little uncomfortable, and some people actually decided not to pursue the rental because of it!
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31 August 2014 | 61 replies
More directly the "I'm going to buy your house" routine, when the wholesaler barely has the earnest money of $200, and is going to string the owner out as long as they can while looking to flip the contract....then walking away at the end when they can't flip it, leaving an owner who thought their home was really sold and have been making plans to move on.
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16 September 2015 | 126 replies
Being from the Bay Area when I came to OREGON I got deals accepted simply because I did not know any better and would routinely put up 10 to 20k in EM...
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16 December 2017 | 71 replies
The best part is, many callers are in dire straits or at the very least, in a financially uncomfortable situation, but they still want to hit the jackpot.