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11 November 2018 | 10 replies
Just a little worried because there is no job, only social security, workers comp and the housing voucher.
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18 November 2018 | 12 replies
Put another way, the laundry machines should pay for themselves, and then some.Yes you can use this as an excuse to raise rents, but I'd wait a year, or the next time it's scheduled to go up for general inflation.Cons:Yes, it's one more expense that might draw the line for a marginal property.
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15 November 2018 | 5 replies
It's a pretty light job, needs new flooring, interior and exterior paint, resurfacing the kitchen cabinets, counter tops, landscaping and a few other minor things, doors, trim, broken toilet, ect.
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13 November 2018 | 4 replies
Fast forward 3 years... we’ve both built our credit, bought our primary residence, have two kids with a third on the way, solid middle class jobs, and some consumer debt.We were gung-ho to get going in 2019 after bonus and tax time to get a rental property finally.
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15 November 2018 | 15 replies
There's a lot more to consider when it's your primary - not just the scheduling, but taking into account the personal items you have there and how to either protect them or keep them out of the way.
14 July 2019 | 5 replies
I moved to New Jersey Jersey Alaska for a job in a powerplant.
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12 November 2018 | 5 replies
It's been driving me nuts that for every little job that I'm too lazy or incompetent to do I have to pay someone else hundreds of dollars just to show up and take care of it, but I don't really have enough work to hire a permanent worker (16 units in Austin).
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14 November 2018 | 7 replies
Start shopping around and do a good job in vetting each of the prospective candidates and select someone local that can provide services of each of the required disciplines.
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28 November 2018 | 13 replies
(Showing them on schedule C or E or rental real estate income and expense if partnership, Corp, etc.)
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9 December 2018 | 9 replies
A house I was looking at was once owned by someone who worked for the university in some STEM related job (they moved, and the house sat on the market, and then foreclosure) on Cross st.