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10 January 2020 | 70 replies
My nickname for that book is "Negotiating for Amateurs."
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26 January 2021 | 88 replies
@Luke Saglimbeni I disagree I was going. to school to become a quant and work for a hedge fund before I got into real estate private equity and all the successful hedge fund managers either use quant strategies or fundamental based strategies, none of them are using technical analysis, the only people using it are the amateur traders and that’s because the brokerages push it hard because it causes them to trade more and generates them more commissions.
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19 November 2019 | 2 replies
There was also an illegal amateur screen porch built around the deck.
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5 September 2019 | 5 replies
However I do know of a few investors that rent mainly to families and they seem to be doing okay, but in my amateur opinion the market isn’t quite as attractive as it was 3+ years ago.
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4 September 2019 | 3 replies
After a year of listening to BP, reading books, talking to professionals and amateurs, after hopping on a plane to KCMO and surveying different neighborhoods...I finally signed a contract on my first SFH property in Raytown, Mo!
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10 September 2019 | 13 replies
What if your amateur guess is that it will cost you $75,000 to renovate and it ends up taking $150,000?
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7 May 2020 | 7 replies
If you would like to see photos of the rehabilitation, have any questions, or would like some tips from an amateur, let me know!
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25 September 2019 | 3 replies
It was a very amateur mistake of mine i guess.
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25 September 2019 | 56 replies
@Michinori Kaneko your advice would make sense if I were an amateur that didn't know what I was talking about.
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21 September 2019 | 9 replies
They don't skip steps like the amateur channels, the production quality is great and everything they do is up to local code.