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2 June 2013 | 2 replies
Well spoken and socially groomed enough to successfully communicate and interact with a broad population.
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14 May 2013 | 15 replies
Persons in title are generally allowed to assume payments, as with family members and in these times, a family unit is hard to define, but know you're on the hook until it's refinanced in her name.You can certainly run the whole thing by your portfolio lender and ask for a 5 year balloon, that should fit well with such an arrangement.
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12 May 2013 | 2 replies
My suggestion would be to define a goal and "work backwards"; For example if you are looking to rent it out you may want to leave the carpet vs. if you are looking to sell the home you may want to get rid of the carpet and install new flooring.
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12 August 2013 | 15 replies
Something could be defined as bird dogging it, attempting a wholesale, or taking on a fix-n-flip.
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17 May 2013 | 16 replies
If you know West Seattle, California Ave, 35th Ave, and 16th Ave define transitional zones in values.
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21 May 2013 | 9 replies
We did a lot of research before starting and found people who ended up with landlocked lots or "waste land" as the county records define it and could not sell the properties.
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21 May 2013 | 3 replies
It needs to address the functions but it should not be written so strictly or well defined that your by-laws or operating agreement becomes restrictive and requires modification to make a left turn.
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21 May 2013 | 12 replies
It also depends on how you define try and succeed.To follow up on what Dean Letfus is trying to say, people who Try, generally don't succeed.
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1 November 2013 | 8 replies
You have to know how to define the lands highest and best use to extract the maximum amount of money from the best buyer.Example say you get three buyers:1.
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5 June 2013 | 10 replies
Instead we wrote a promissary note in order to clearly define terms.