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30 September 2008 | 1 reply
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8 November 2008 | 79 replies
“We just need to get them in the door and the deal closed and get as much money as we can upfront then if they default we will still make a nice profit.†That is why interest only loans were so popular for a while.There is a reason why I don’t work in the financial industry any more.
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2 October 2008 | 7 replies
I buy and assign or keep, rent, resell properties in highly growing areas or areas that are undervalued.
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26 October 2008 | 19 replies
I expect inventory in my city to grow or stay flat.
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9 October 2008 | 7 replies
Maybe start off with something small and then grow from there.
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13 November 2009 | 9 replies
As the entity grows, your intent is to market that investment as a product to where investors could receive fixed and secured returns.
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21 October 2008 | 7 replies
What I love about it is that for my ROTH IRA, all the rent checks go back into my ROTH growing tax-free.
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6 May 2011 | 40 replies
I think it's possible, but I think a big factor would be getting a fairly quick start and reaching a critical mass of a few million, at which point I think a lot more options would start opening up to make the money grow faster.
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13 October 2008 | 9 replies
Around here the trend is growing into an 'us versus them' mentality -- the hard-working citizen/homeowners versus the evil greedy landlords.
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12 August 2009 | 4 replies
sounds simplistic, but it was a pretty popular method when buying residential properties that i used a few years back.