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17 December 2020 | 3 replies
These programs are designed to encourage home ownership and protect lenders at the same time.Less risk = better interest rate.
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28 December 2020 | 16 replies
When rates are good, I always encourage to leverage the debt in real estate.
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31 January 2021 | 10 replies
I would encourage researching potential areas on existing deterrents to potential growth (Austin's landfill sites on the East and South East side to name a few).
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17 December 2020 | 1 reply
Hoping to share some encouragement..
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20 December 2020 | 14 replies
I am willing to work with them, but am fortunate since we are NOT over-leveraged.If you follow these posts with guys wanting to buy stuff for nothing-down, those are usually the types that make life miserable for good tenants since dollars drive them.However, I get a bad tenant and I can return the favor.Anyways, for your cynical self, I guess I'd like to make society better by rewarding (and hopefully encouraging) good behaviors.
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16 December 2020 | 1 reply
We're looking to get a group of local Homer area investors together to swap stories, encourage each other and put some deals together.
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18 December 2020 | 1 reply
Aside from the natural increases (2.5%) you can get vacancy increases but then you need to encourage folks to leave.
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19 December 2020 | 3 replies
For that reason, I'd encourage you to check it out!
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19 December 2020 | 7 replies
@Nancy Bachety Thx a lot for the advice, especially the locations your giving me some good starting point to go off of, loving it 😁👍🏾@Michael Baum Thx for the encouragement
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24 December 2020 | 23 replies
I'd encourage you to take a very CLOSE look at storage!