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3 January 2025 | 14 replies
Additionally, Gilbert and Chandler have emerged as strong markets for short-term rentals, benefiting from a combination of year-round tourism, a family-friendly atmosphere, and proximity to major attractions.
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26 December 2024 | 9 replies
However, I definitely recommend pictures any time a guest left damage or extra cleaning that will result in additional charges.
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30 December 2024 | 7 replies
It’s easy to manipulate projected returns by making a few small adjustments in the underwriting and proforma.There is nothing guaranteed with any investment.A few additional comments:1.
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12 January 2025 | 20 replies
You divide that $20k by .075 and you get a boost of $260k to the valuation.Allowing you to take the property back to the bank, get a new loan with $208k of additional debt on the property, pay yourself back that investment and now you have enough cash to buy a $1M deal and use that strategy over and over while scaling exponentially.
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22 December 2024 | 7 replies
Additionally, there are Facebook groups where you can find some decent help, but there has to be quite a bit more due diligence and vetting with any and all contractors.
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4 January 2025 | 14 replies
If the marginal cost increase in buying a house that can be house hacked (a house with a basement, a duplex, etc.) is less than the rents you expect to bring in from renting the additional space, why not do it?
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12 January 2025 | 23 replies
Lack of down payment, lack of entrepreneurial personality, low tolerance for risk, looking for the magic key that fits their desires, just want to learn, sold "Castles in the sky" with a gibberish of disconnected statements that while true in a plethora of instances do not add up to truth in any one instance, fear of failure meaning not able to take a financial loss without going into poverty, never told up front how much money they will need to spend to buy the investment in addition to paying for the class.
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29 December 2024 | 17 replies
I'd love some help additional set of eyes or insight on features and capabilities.
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25 December 2024 | 2 replies
I could see how purchasing before the rehab I could have added additional equity but then I would have had to manage the purchase and rehab from out of state.
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8 January 2025 | 38 replies
I suspect it was two or more months on 1 bill in addition to what we pay for common areas.