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18 October 2020 | 16 replies
@Lee Cruz good goals and plan.........in order to scale it comes with some debt or it is too slow.
7 November 2022 | 6 replies
I’d like to try to get some money back to either pay off debt or if I’m going to have to live in to to reinvest back into the property.
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6 March 2017 | 64 replies
This would ensure you a safe haven in a downturn.As an aside, the book Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink, Louis Hyman, Ph.D. ’07, give a fascinating history of the recent phenomena of debt as a right and norm of the american people.
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19 May 2015 | 22 replies
and just to push his thought a little further, you can talk with the BK trustee and mention to them that debtor signed the house over to you and that you've been making the payments...usually this is all that is needed and they will remove this creditor from the BK filing.
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1 May 2015 | 3 replies
Boaz: if the lien is not paid off by the debtor, the property will eventually be sold at auction in the courthouse and you will have lots of competition for the property.
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5 May 2015 | 118 replies
I only have 11 left and frankly I am not a great landlord I am too busy with my other money making endouvers IE building new homes developing subdivisions doing JV's with fix and flippers that the though of tying up 50k in debt or equity to make 200 a month has ZERO appeal to me personally... so that's kind of the two sides of the coin.
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4 June 2015 | 18 replies
Large amounts of unsecured debt or short credit history?
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4 May 2015 | 2 replies
The reason for the bankruptcy is an important indicator of risk, were funds just mismanaged and a debtor was irresponsible for debts or did unforeseen and unavoidable matters cause the situation, such as medical bills?
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15 May 2015 | 2 replies
(Anyone ever used the Fair Debt or Credit letter - not sure what it's called)
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26 August 2015 | 13 replies
After World War I, America required that European debtors pay their debts in gold.