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16 August 2014 | 6 replies
What do you consider to be some of the best early habits to establish as a real estate investor?
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6 July 2019 | 118 replies
Do you really think that someone like Habitat or Goodwill or one of those will take it as a donation?
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11 June 2013 | 56 replies
Once it become habit then I would start collecting fines.
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3 June 2009 | 52 replies
Google, print, tv, radio, web, lexis nexis, appraisal figures, demographics, buying habits, patents, biggerpockets.com etc..., these are the information commodities.
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28 March 2016 | 70 replies
I think I have a habit of underselling I did the same thing when I was selling cars.perhaps I don't have enough confidence to ask for so much.1300 would be 650 it is possible I could probably go to 550 we will see in a year or so for now I am comfortableas far as safety the neighborhood doesent have that sort of crime (mugging and the like) it has its issues but not that sort of thing.
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22 March 2017 | 57 replies
I also want to make sure the tenant's next door don't move out because of the new tenants "living habits".
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8 April 2019 | 30 replies
Furthermore, I have learned that it is vitally important to ALWAYS have a written Agreement with terms spelled out in as much detail as possible- no matter the size of the project.
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10 June 2017 | 18 replies
@Andrew Johnson I guess I can see it from that perspective but that means funding for homes in areas where the common prices are under $50k (perfectly habitable properties) must be difficult, even for OO use.
25 July 2017 | 162 replies
In run down lower class areas often the only value-add projects you can do effectively are just to make the units habitable, because if you do nicer renos you won't get paid for it and sometimes they can just get beat up and ruined by rough tenants.As an example, on my first building I bought about 5 years ago, one of the units rented for $1,250.
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1 August 2017 | 39 replies
The amount of habitable land in NY, CA, and Western WA cities such as Seattle is very minimal compared to say, Columbus Ohio.