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30 April 2015 | 8 replies
When I go from HML to Conventional, is this going to be an application for refi or purchase from the CML's stand point?
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1 July 2016 | 12 replies
Having said that, using different types of direct mail pieces appeals to different types of prospects and helps you stand out.
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29 October 2019 | 16 replies
As things stand here in NB for the moment, the best I can hope for from our energy efficiency and net-zero power efforts is reverse metering to the point of zeroing out my bill with the electrical utility.
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29 April 2015 | 11 replies
It's vague and generally not enforceable in a court of law.You could be talking about a broken appliance in the garage or a 5,000 refrigerator in the house etc.I just can't stand sloppy contracts that are vague.
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30 April 2015 | 6 replies
i'd get my re salesperson license, hang it with a broker, and start helping people buy homes at least as a buyers agent. as a buyer's agent u still make around 1/2 to 1/4 of the total commission (assuming a 50/50 split or 50/50 two-fold) and that could quickly rack up to ur first downpayment in a couple years (and time flies).as for hard money and private money loans, those are for short term situations cuz of the steep interest and/or loanshark terms.
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29 April 2015 | 5 replies
Unfortunately free online classifieds have only increased the amount of crap 100 fold compared to what we used to see in newspaper classifieds.
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4 May 2015 | 6 replies
However, the D/I profile of my two investment propertie as a stand-alone is ~60-70%.
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12 May 2015 | 18 replies
What someone likes for 1,2,3 reasons can be the exact opposite of what another investor can't stand.
2 May 2015 | 4 replies
the 2nd association it resonates is the highly consumption-driven society we live in. in my area (coastal, urban southern california) i'm surrounded by 2 distinct lifestyles. there's the majority: seems like 95% of the local population who are renters, driving luxury cars, sporting fancy clothes, jewelry, hairdos, etc but obviously living paycheck to paycheck as exemplified by hardly a day somebody or the other is spotted getting their car repo'ed by a camera crew. the rarer are the landlords, who in this area seem to be of mostly asian demographics (chinese, koreans, japanese) who live obviously very frugally: old 80s model sedan, oldfashion business cloths, always eating simple meal from home, seemingly never splurging $$$ other than into expanding their portfolio), my observance is relatively very few landlords in the area own relatively huge portfolios, each.with the advent of these infomercials and the internet (ie, BP) more and more people want to get a 'piece of the REI pie' and more power to them. there does seem to be this dream of rags to riches and while its ok to dream, do most people actually expect their life to turn around like that, as portrayed in most of the infomercials or even in the everyday setting where the masses living paycheck to paycheck, are spending their last expendable dollars not on depositing into savings acount, but blowing $20 on scratchies etc. in summary, is my observation reminds me of my days when i worked on wall st and the 'ra trace' was so obvious with dime a dozen stock brokers makin 6fig salaries at some point but blowing it on recreational drugs apparently costing thousands of dollars a pop to the point the next week they are broke again and that $ wasnt invested but wasted.
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5 November 2015 | 9 replies
Although I co-own and manage a Texas based website / web software design business and have been an entrepreneur for 20 years, I have a long-standing goal of growing an REI business.