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3 February 2013 | 29 replies
I had at one time about 45 agents but go rid of them all.Most agents work a full time job and occasionally do a sale maybe once or twice a year.
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9 November 2013 | 29 replies
You pay more at the small hardware shop located a block from you than you would at the Home Depot 12 miles from you, but I will still occasionally shop and pay a higher price at the ma and pa store if I want the convenience.
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20 April 2013 | 25 replies
. - Do my first deal all cash or nearly all cash, spending $75-90k on a duplex (includes any rehab costs) - Immediately use the equity in the home to finance another, slightly larger (or nicer) property in the same area - Rinse and repeat until I've met my goals - Occasionally flip properties if the opportunity is there (as I have the skills and experience to do much of the work myself), but main strategy is buy, hold and rentSo, a few questions:- I know there are about a million and one ways this'll go off plan, slightly or entirely, but at a high level, is this a sound strategy?
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5 September 2012 | 13 replies
One I break occasionally is renting to someone with a bankruptcy.
12 June 2013 | 15 replies
I own a few rentals and do the occasional fix and flip.
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10 November 2019 | 316 replies
J Scott, 25K educates 4 people, each member gets their own ID & password with access to the Mastery site, 24/7 where ever they may be, each member get free admission to the all awesome bootcamps, 3 and 4 "live" training/webinars per week and access to years of recorded webinars on every imaginable Real Estate investing strategy, taught by active successful Mastery graduates, every form, contract, marketing kit and strategies one might need, scripts for every imaginable power team member, realtors, mortgage broker, emergency deal evaluators, transactional funding, occasional partnering on deals, free Passive Income advice and guidance/consultation, and recommended vendor resources with discounts in place for Mastery students in many cases.
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3 January 2013 | 74 replies
There is an occasional small group like the small property owners association in mass.
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16 January 2013 | 84 replies
But I occasionally will get a deal I would just like to wholesale instead.
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6 December 2021 | 61 replies
How about if the show only pitches his business occasionally?
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4 January 2016 | 18 replies
Direct mail tends to be a crappy investment if you only do an occasional mailing to a different list every time.