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20 July 2021 | 10 replies
You can bet the government will doing everything they can to make you rich if you own real estate.
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22 July 2021 | 5 replies
I've been studying real estate investing for a couple of months now (read "Rich Dad Poor Dad" and it changed me forever, as it has everyone else) and I'm looking to purchase my first deal before the end of the year.
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21 July 2021 | 3 replies
The tenants are not going to keep it clean while the property is being shown which will reflect poorly on the amount of interest it gets.
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21 July 2021 | 7 replies
We’ve read Rich Dad Poor Dad and ABCs of real estate .
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21 July 2021 | 3 replies
I bet they have a list of approved education/licensing criteria service companies you can choose from.
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24 July 2021 | 4 replies
@Aaron McGinnis - I worded that poorly.
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24 July 2021 | 6 replies
But if you want other landlords to know about the poor performance of a tenant the only way to do so is by suing/evicting and that way it will pop up on background checks.
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25 July 2021 | 9 replies
I'm seeing that there is a strong resistance in certain neighborhoods (maybe rightfully so if there have been poorly overseen party houses in the neighborhood).
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23 July 2021 | 0 replies
I’ve readThe one thingMillionaire real estate investor Vivid visionsRich dad, poor dadAnd I’ve started David Greene’s BRRRR book, and Brandon Turners book on rental property investing.There’s just soooo many podcasts, I don’t know where to start to get the numbers/ratios that I need to build my spreadsheet to start these exercises.
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29 July 2021 | 5 replies
Remember RE is a long term play so if you take minimal losses short term to get exponential return long term then that's a good bet.