I have this conversation with investors every day.

You will find there are many MA investors on the forum, so setting your keywords (see upper right of this page under the yellow podcast banner) will alert you to conversations and topics that you are interested in.Best of luck, you are smart to start early.

I was asked a question today while I was on guard (Currently in Afghanistan) and to keep the whole conversation shorr the main point of it was if Fayetteville is a good market to invest in, or was the place downsizing and all the buyers leaving (due to the military downsize).

etc.Another conversion option is to go up.

perhaps you could have a conversation with the roommate explaining to them that should they not leave peacefully, and your tenant vacates, they will be immediately evicted anyway.

I had a few conversations with the city and the code compliance department.

I contact the seller with an offer lower than his asking, the only thing he says is if you cannot get lower to my price you can just halt conversation.

Somewhere down the line you will have to pay tax on it.This was just what was brought up in our conversation.

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I had a conversation with a well established wholesaler and she said after her 3rd mailing is when she finally got a deal.