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30 December 2016 | 112 replies
Now-metaphorically- I'm in MI, and people can't believe where I started.
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11 April 2019 | 212 replies
@Joel Owens put it perfectly with the carrot metaphor.
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11 May 2021 | 2 replies
The old fasion metaphor of "folders" has (obviously) its limitations and has run its course here on BP.
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4 October 2019 | 15 replies
@oladantis I love your metaphor!
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7 March 2015 | 174 replies
I hope you get the metaphor...I underwrite to a performance level that I'm confident in and I arrive at a strike price.
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16 June 2015 | 43 replies
Had it just been the one property then I was going the F/F route because of %rates and the fact that I only have 2 outstanding mortgages.Low and behold, fate now throws a curve ball (not sure why I felt the need to do a sports metaphor), and now I'm having to learn about creative financing, legally of course.And @Michael Worleythis is yet another piece to this puzzle.
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11 February 2017 | 5 replies
Again, drawing a metaphor to stocks... rents are to dividends as home values are to stock prices.
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25 September 2013 | 21 replies
The idea behind the metaphor is that sometimes making small amounts (i.e. rent payments) is easy.
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17 November 2013 | 5 replies
I find the metaphor, flow, and flexibility of the product to be more amicable than M$ Project.
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6 July 2019 | 6 replies
Metaphorically speaking, but not a newbie I heard of this and watched a YouTube guru once type of thing.