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7 September 2022 | 12 replies
If the property values in your market soften, if the tenant moves in and destroys it, fire, earthquakes, floods, hail, hurricane, another lock down requires you to keep a non-paying tenant - honestly anything - and my position in the property is at jeopardy.
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1 November 2019 | 1 reply
I have owned the property for 30 years but have had to retrofit for earthquakes, it is in a high fire danger in the foothills and nickels and dimes me all the time because it is old.
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30 March 2021 | 3 replies
Just in case you don’t have enough to worry about (see above), let’s throw earthquakes into the mix.
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28 May 2020 | 3 replies
@Eddy Ramos I invest in Little Havana and near Little Haiti, but I’ve never heard of a Little Jamaica in Miami.
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3 March 2016 | 14 replies
We have all been fairly lucky over the last 10 years or so, but you're right a hurricane can wipe out a park instantly, especially if you're in a tidal zone prone to storm surges from past hurricanes.There are risks like this everywhere though - tornadoes happen across the midwest and earthquakes on the west coast.
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30 October 2020 | 12 replies
How do I set up in a lease, to protect myself (landlord) from tenant putting together a lawsuit against me for property damage during unforeseen circumstance like fires or earthquakes etc. when they didn’t purchase rental insurance?
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12 March 2023 | 14 replies
This leads to a slow or stagnant increase in property prices and rents in established areas as people move further out and rent or buy newer homes.Natural disaster risk - Natural disasters such as tornadoes, hurricanes, and earthquakes destroy communities.
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22 August 2022 | 135 replies
After many years and many properties, we've been through a series of adventures (and misadventures) worthy of a Hollywood script--including flooded rentals, earthquake-caused property condemnation, unexpectedly canceled contracts, and even having to navigate a felony-level crime committed at a property we had under contract...but those are stories for another day...Now, to answer your question: I spent about 1 hour with my agent on a Monday going over my goals and learning about his process...that Thursday, we spent about 8 hours looking at properties and making our offer, and we were under contract that night...so, it was a fast-paced process, and much quicker than I had expected (but that had more to do with the breakneck pace of my local market than anything).
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30 January 2023 | 10 replies
There’s been reports that Little Haiti has been bought up by investors
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7 June 2023 | 15 replies
Floods, earthquakes, fires, storms, monsoons.