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14 January 2019 | 10 replies
If you can spend the time before you actually move really developing a set of criteria, you'll be ready to jump on the ideal property when it comes up.
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8 January 2019 | 3 replies
Also, transferring the savings before paying your other bills teaches you that your savings is top priority and forces you to adjust spending to make it work.
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7 January 2019 | 3 replies
If you want to get all of your money out, you need to spend no more than 75% of the final ARV.
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20 January 2019 | 8 replies
My opinion is that there isn't any money in it for them so they don't want to spend time helping you look.
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22 January 2019 | 17 replies
Wouldn’t want to spend too much time focusing on an LLC than take time away from you learning to analyzing deals, looking at properties and closing on them.
9 January 2019 | 25 replies
I have seen it happen plenty of times to know your best advice is to make sure they figure out how much of that money will go towards spending spree and how much towards investing now.
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7 January 2019 | 4 replies
They'd like to avoid either scenario.My thought is to have them spend the money to get the house livable (adding a means of heat and turning the water on, dealing with any issues that brings) then pass an appraisal and get either a heloc or cash out to fund renovations.
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14 January 2019 | 9 replies
Perhaps by bringing attention to it at a public meeting the "right" person will hear you/get wind of it and send one of their guys out to spend an hour to "make the problem go away."
7 January 2019 | 4 replies
Any rough formulas to figure out how much is worth spending on a garage?
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8 January 2019 | 5 replies
So I spend only the time it takes to look at my rent roll and enter my expenses for the month into my ledger.