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12 February 2025 | 0 replies
Partnering up with family that has trust in our track record boosts confidence and allows for continued business.
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7 February 2025 | 4 replies
Working in a busy property management company, I'm often asked for advice on camera and alarm systems, and in rougher neighborhoods sometimes it can be a toss-up on whether to keep a property boarded-up between showings.
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26 January 2025 | 2 replies
When the whole covid shutdown occurred, I dropped out of college to help my father's service business maintaining and remodeling residential and commercial buildings.
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10 February 2025 | 3 replies
How did you incorporate the funding fee PLUS the closing costs?
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30 January 2025 | 4 replies
Turbotax isn't going to educate you so unless you'd like to educate yourself and potentially make some costly pitfalls, then I'd outsource.
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29 January 2025 | 1 reply
Are the business on there trusted?
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6 February 2025 | 7 replies
We used to hire a company to balance the chemicals and my costs were almost 2K per month.
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15 January 2025 | 18 replies
Borrowing $200K at 4-5% will cost you $8000 - $10,000 of interest each year.
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21 January 2025 | 14 replies
I would suggest you up your rate from 8% to 10% to help off-set some of that cost. 10% is doable all day long here in Texas.
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10 February 2025 | 3 replies
Though I am unsure how I would amortize the up front remodeling costs for P&L, tax accounting.2) Interest only loans term loans - Would allow current owner to have cash flow on the property, without eroding the asset value.