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30 January 2012 | 13 replies
Inspect the property to make sure none of the tenants are operating a business, daycare, beauty shop, auto repair, MARIJUANA GROWING or others.Make sure that you are credited at closing for the amount of ALL SECURITY DEPOSITS.
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28 April 2005 | 2 replies
For instance the latest repair is the kitchen sink is backed up.......There has been nothing wrong with the sink!
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10 November 2005 | 13 replies
In contrast a growing number of consumers and investors alike know more about real estate and investing than that certain agent.
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2 September 2006 | 20 replies
For instance if I am showing a client a property I do not answer my cell phone.
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21 May 2009 | 5 replies
Obviously it's going to have to be a large amount of land in a growing or just outside a growing area.
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2 October 2018 | 18 replies
interesting threadI retired 10 years ago from my day job, basically leveraging from my property investmentsIt look me 7 years but it was the fact that I jumped into booming markets that made a massive differenceMix this with some small development projects..... this is like investing on steroids, speeds the processI continue investing today and growing capital.
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17 September 2008 | 34 replies
There are sooo many costs with doing business, and if you ask a broker how much money they spend on worthless advertising, they'd tell you alot.In my area for instance , EVERY broker advertises in the local newspapers.
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10 November 2010 | 26 replies
i put a similar clause in my lease, but i really only have it to protect me in case a tenant has misused an appliance or something..i have one tenant for instance, who didn't want to turn the gas heat on, so they used the oven constantly to heat the apartment...no, i wouldn't replace that oven when it burnt out...however, if they're good tenants, it's prob. cheaper to say, "guys, i usually don't do this, but yall have been good to me, so i'm gonna take care of it."
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28 February 2010 | 12 replies
I have enough money to live the life I want to and hope some day down the road to grow rich from my hard work.Good luck to you sir.
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18 July 2005 | 1 reply
Dig the business but it does not help grow hair.