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17 January 2015 | 12 replies
How to find a lender isn't going to tell you how to be a lender.My answer is, anyone who has enough money to be a lender has enough money to see a broker and learn, has enough money to see a financial attorney and has enough money to open shop in compliance with applicable laws.If you make a loan that is not in compliance, you can lose the amount loaned plus fines.A private lender has a personal relationship with a borrower, past business dealings or other relationships.
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29 May 2018 | 14 replies
I am completely redoing one of my rental units and I have a dilemma with the kitchen cabinets.I am trying to stay within a budget so I am shopping around for suited cabinetry.
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10 February 2013 | 17 replies
The efficiencies that exist in the institutional income products like large apartment complexes and regional shopping centers with onsite management don't exist in the SFR's market.
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11 February 2010 | 13 replies
Also a very handy tool for tile work with a diamond blade.Pawn shops can be good sources for tools like either of these.
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5 February 2011 | 17 replies
But there are some big moves coming into the city (medical mart / convention center, aquarium by a private investor, guy from iron chef just opened up a shop) and the house is a few houses down from the house on the movie "A Christmas Story".
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13 August 2011 | 22 replies
The fact is that too many small business owners are really doing nothing more than creating jobs for themselves; they are not creating anything of true economic value.By that I mean let's say someone invests $400,000 in a donut shop and their target return is 10% on their capital.
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14 January 2011 | 11 replies
Do you always want to work for a big shop or do you want to own the shop?
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24 April 2009 | 15 replies
.$3000 should be plenty...if you get bids for more than that shop around...
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7 June 2009 | 29 replies
I'll add a couple of examples I found helpful, the first chapter is called The Broken Window. when a rock is thrown through a window, some people go on and on how this is wonderful, this creates work for someone to fix the window, but in reality, if the window hadn't been broken the owner of the shop would have bought a new suit instead, and created work for a tailor, and had both a new suit and a window, not just a window. but no one ever saw the suit because it never came into existence because the owner of the shop had to use his limited resources to buy a window. but everyone can see the window and the job "created" by it so they are fooled into thinking a job was created and a window was brought into existence and that this was productive.the second chapter, creating jobs for the sake of job creation is really just moving jobs around, and usually the market not the government can best decide what people actually want and need.
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16 August 2013 | 0 replies
In order to fully take advantage of this, shop around.