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25 January 2012 | 35 replies
It's a long report but I think this summarizes it.Using a statistical analysis the results are the following:Zillow’s Average Percent Error: 6.14%Study Accuracy: +/- 0.86%Median: 6.70%Standard Deviation: 8.45%As evident by first glance (plus the large standard deviation) the only clear trend is that Zillow generally underestimates the value of the home.
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19 January 2012 | 6 replies
I think that if it were done according to your recommendations all along, we would have started the first unit out on form 4562 years ago with one Basis amount that represented both units, but would have put the Busines use percent at something like 60% (?).
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27 March 2013 | 47 replies
I got my license to make some money off the many deals that were to thin to do as a investor deal but could be brokered.I didn't keep track of what percent of income was agent earned and what percent was investor earned, but one good year I remember $300k as an agent and $1.2mil as an investor.
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2 May 2012 | 13 replies
I have a 10 percent interest in a nice apt complex in an upscale part of Milwaukee.
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26 April 2013 | 34 replies
Let's see, if I'm a bank and (to make it simple) have a portfolioed loan, say 850K, say too it was made, oh, 9 years ago at 8.50%, and my bank is borrowering at 1/2% we are pulling 8% on the loan balance and our servicing expense is less than one tenth of one per cent, just how far under water does the collateral need to be before I decide to throw this loan out on the street at a loss?
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18 February 2015 | 182 replies
ana=lnkSome highlights:19,000 new jobs are expected this year after 13,000 last year.Unemployment rate could drop below 5% in a year.Office space is at an 88 percent occupancy rate and rising with very little new coming on line this year.Retail is at 94 percent occupancy.
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24 October 2012 | 17 replies
So I think I could make a reasonable argument for the 50% percent rule becoming the 40% rule in my case.
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28 March 2012 | 21 replies
They should also have a floor slab elevation survey so they know when they have the foundation back to the "reference" elevation.The piers may not be pressed piers, but 95 percent of the time they are.
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14 March 2012 | 5 replies
It is 95 percent gutted and has been re-framed.
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21 March 2012 | 19 replies
I agree now that a college degree is seen as necessary.Back when I graduated high school in 1993 a college degree still had value more than just being seen as what a high school diploma used to be.The problem I see is where many get degrees in things that rack up student debt but pay little to no money as a specialist degree.Other times they get a general business degree.They do this to be versatile.I think it hurts most job applicants as yes they can apply for many generalist jobs but so can a bunch of other people with the same vanilla degree.I believe if you are going to go this route at least get your Masters degree.That extra schooling will put you ahead of many applying for a job.You will earn more over your lifetime and statistically get promoted faster.If you want to be special and make an extraordinary life for yourself you have to avoid the herd mentality and stand out.So I say don't go to college for the sake of college.I know people with degrees that just can't get a job so they work retail as a manager making a crappy 12 bucks an hour.They go to apply for a job for their degree and surprise there is 50 other applicants many who have ten years experience where their company went out of business.Now you have over qualified applicants that employers can land at entry level wages and the students with degrees can't get a foot in the door.If a student can get free tuition they don't have to pay back with student loans or their parents have a fund to pay it for them then great have at it.If the student is going to simply rack up tens of thousands even over 100k of debt and then hit the world making 15 bucks an hour they will be in a world of hurt.Especially since you can't get rid of the student debt in BK.In the old days you worked for a company and gave them your heart and soul and in return they took care of you in retirement.These days people change jobs on average every 5 years and about 80% of the work force hates their job and does it out of necessity.I wouldn't call that a quality way of living.