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14 December 2007 | 10 replies
The ability to control the process, to see what is going on and to check up on the builders, estate agents, solicitors and others (using UK terms).What you do not know you do not know is what will bite you the hardest.3.
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20 January 2008 | 25 replies
I got quite ill amongt other things, and basically sparing the details, my life fell apart like a controlled demolition.
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8 May 2009 | 10 replies
Your servicing co. has no control over this.
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9 December 2007 | 8 replies
Putin continues to take full control.
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26 November 2007 | 2 replies
Who's going to control the system, or are you going to provide separate systems?
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29 November 2007 | 11 replies
Routine maintenance, landscaping, snow removal, rent collection, bookkeeping, pest control.
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16 April 2010 | 4 replies
Now I will have a hole where the box was in a wood panel wall.
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12 December 2007 | 4 replies
This is quite a bit of work but when the property is appraised I am able to finance 100% of the cost of construction and have a new property.One advantage of this is that as I am in control of the building process, thus I am in control of the quality of construction and the materials that are used.
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14 January 2008 | 33 replies
Leverage is the ability to use a small investment to control a large investment.
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16 December 2007 | 15 replies
But how can they make a deal for loans that they have no control over?