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24 July 2016 | 27 replies
If you can get in on the low cycle and sell on the high you could make some money but you'll work for it by renting in between and holding costs will eat your profit.
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9 July 2016 | 22 replies
If you are truly cash-flowing at Five Points you already own the goose that lays the golden eggs :-)
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7 July 2016 | 3 replies
The owner is a really old lady that has just been eating property taxes and insurance for an insane amount of time but is clearly not super motivated to sell it for some unknown reason.
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6 July 2016 | 6 replies
That being said, thats the risk you run with every deal out there - that you might lose money and will need to eat the loss.I would definitely do it.
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8 July 2016 | 8 replies
Do this under an LLC so that if ALL HELL breaks lose, what's left of your personal nest-egg is protected.
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19 July 2016 | 11 replies
Often "getting started" means taking a year to make budget sacrifices so you have a nest egg to start investing with as well as cleaning up or establishing your credit history.
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14 July 2016 | 8 replies
At 95K cash I would want to see close to 25-30% return on my cash on a flip, because my time eats away at that return.
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15 July 2016 | 11 replies
The rest are larva, eggs, juveniles.Sprays can kill adults and larva but not the eggs or while they are in the cocoons they use to transition from larvae to adult.
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18 July 2016 | 3 replies
My agent also had to supplement this letter with conversations with the seller's agent around how I've done many of these loans and the deal would not fall through due to financing/capital.This is one of those chicken/egg conundrums and it helps to have an agent on your side that is very comfortable with the business model and willing to drill it into the heads of the selling agents that have trouble following it.
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23 July 2016 | 19 replies
for example i have a decent nest egg of money saved and so does my co app. as well as my co app in a union contract with scheduled raises. i am also scheduled to receive a settlement check for an accident in 4 years. could these things make them look past my short history at my current job?