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20 September 2021 | 55 replies
The course teaches you A to Z on how to get started in the real estate game, as well as buying home to eventual turn into a rental if you choose to.
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20 April 2016 | 14 replies
Buying a luxury on credit often causes a person to eventually resent that luxury because the debt becomes a financial burden. 16th amendment in 1913 income tax became permeant.
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9 October 2020 | 148 replies
The surplus goes to a repair escrow for now (eventual replumb/rewire) but I'm hoping to go solar within the next 5 years and increase the rents to include solar electric.
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30 December 2016 | 112 replies
So instead find 5 people you want to be more like and start to go out for coffee with them and pick their brain.I would also say obviously don't take advice from someone who hasn't done it before, because I find everyone always seems to have advice on something that they have never done but the funny thing is it always happens to turn out negative.Instead listen to the people who have done it and done it successfully and pick their brain and find out the model they used to be successful and if you do that with every successful person you come across then eventually you form your own model for success!
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22 December 2022 | 11 replies
I've always been interested in real estate investing, and while I'm currently focused on building my business and making connections with others in the industry, I hope to eventually turn my passion for real estate into a full-time career.
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22 December 2022 | 0 replies
We live here currently and will eventually rent it out!
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2 January 2015 | 53 replies
When I receive a gift certificate to a store or restaurant that is not of my choosing, it is one more card to try not to lose and to eventually get around to using, or to re-gift.
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29 March 2021 | 20 replies
I spent a lot of time trying to reconcile the exodus from IL and what I've been seeing in the market and eventually came to understand that while the population in Chicago is dropping the density within the desirable areas is spiking.
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22 December 2022 | 1 reply
Your profile mentions having your kids eventually get involved in real estate.You might want to see, depending on their age and income levels, if they would be suited to be paid some wage for work that they do on your rentals.
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29 December 2015 | 8 replies
Maybe not now, but you will be held accountable.If you are starting a business to run as a real estate firm, with the mindset to eventually hire some employees, and use different strategies to make money, it's best to be incorporated.