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24 July 2024 | 26 replies
Home Depot was easy to work with and they ended up lowering their initial price for my kitchen from 2900 to 2100 and gave me a $200 Home Depot gift card for the number of problems we had with missing parts.
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22 July 2024 | 0 replies
A portion of it to reserve for refinancing and most of it to pay off credit cards and prior debt.
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22 July 2024 | 9 replies
(this can be 24 months of mortgage statements, auto bill, and/or credit card bills). 5.
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22 July 2024 | 17 replies
When you say cash, are you referring to debit cards, or actual physical cash?
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22 July 2024 | 2 replies
You get the card, put it in a drawer, and never use it, but you will build a credit history based on their performance record.Work hard and save money.
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22 July 2024 | 17 replies
Sometimes they also have a car payment or child support payments or major credit card debt.
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20 July 2024 | 6 replies
(You'd want an attorney to look the docs over but you wouldn't spend as much as we did as most of the attorney work was loan-related.)Of course you will also want to have insurance in place and that is often paid as a closing cost.Somewhat of a wild card are prorations.
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20 July 2024 | 5 replies
If tenants use a credit card they are charged a 3% fee… otherwise it is a free service to our tenants.
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22 July 2024 | 34 replies
It's all totally survivable.It will take 90 to 120 days to go through the process and then you can start rebuilding.Banks won't lend to you in the future until you clear the deck and rebuild your credit anyway (usually through small loans at first and secured credit cards.