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25 July 2022 | 0 replies
Huntsville-area employers are looking to fill more than 15k positionsMICHAEL SEALEJULY 25, 2022(Michele Brock / Crestwood Medical Center)If you are looking for a new job, or your first job or even a side gig, the Huntsville area is a great place to start that search, as this week’s job listings from Indeed.com show more than 15,000 job openings in and around the Rocket City.Jobs in the area include hundreds in the medical, engineering and tech fields.
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26 July 2022 | 8 replies
My question is ..Should I start up the marketing engine to start finding deals and then if something comes across thats good, start to look for some private capital OR wait and save up the 20% (around 100k minimum in my area) before marketing looking for deals?
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28 July 2022 | 6 replies
Take as many real estate, legal, civil engineering, structural engineering, and finance classes as you can.
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27 July 2022 | 5 replies
Maybe it's because I am an engineer by trade and somewhat systematic by nature, but I think real systems start to matter after maybe 20 properties, maybe more.
3 August 2022 | 10 replies
Proposals from engineers on the remediation?
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2 August 2022 | 18 replies
Modern building standards utilize engineering that achieves an expected life span of on average 25-45 years (yes, that's correct, homes sold on 30yr mortgages that were engineered to last 25yrs, I saw it and worked on them).
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14 August 2022 | 60 replies
I was advised by an engineer inspecting things in the Fall that I may want to secure the box given children under 13 in the house.
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15 September 2022 | 8 replies
But the best ways are direct-to-seller marketing and SEO (although that's a bit of a winner takes all game and takes time to get your site to the top of the search engines).
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7 August 2022 | 6 replies
If I own an LLC that sells engineering consulting services for, say, $20,000 in a year, can I use that $20,000 to make a downpayment on an investment property, and then tell the IRS the LLC had $0 profit?
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16 August 2022 | 19 replies
I wanted to reverse engineer this a bit, granted I don’t have tax or insurance numbers.