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16 June 2024 | 14 replies
Did you have Real Estate before starting the program?
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17 June 2024 | 26 replies
I want to start building relationships with the agents and visit some of them to pick their brains, figuratively, of course.
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17 June 2024 | 36 replies
I've recently setup a Self-Directed IRA with Quest - just funded and am looking to start!
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17 June 2024 | 5 replies
But… if the renting out rooms doesn't qualify as your primary and you wait until year 2 to start renting out rooms you’ll be forced to sell before year 5 or you’ll be back to zero tax free again.
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17 June 2024 | 5 replies
Some of the best tenants I started on a month to month and then transitioned them to year leases.
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17 June 2024 | 18 replies
I think the companies are gonna start to crackdown on this pretty soon, all of the vendors require you to certify that you're not using the platform for cold calling.2) It works best for inbound leads, inbound calls and calling old leads to rekindle them.
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17 June 2024 | 16 replies
When these homes get listed, we get photos and the 'dream of owning your own vacation home' So we have to start with price & location..if those both meet the criteria, then we hone in on weather we want one that has not been taken care of and likely not generating enough income to cover expenses or one that is fully themed and likely will continue to do well if all else stays the same.
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18 June 2024 | 18 replies
I would start by removing carpet and cleaning what you can, paint and then ozone as long as it takes.Ozone is cheap, but with fresh paint and new carpet it might ad up to $10k.
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16 June 2024 | 7 replies
This got us in the game with very little of our $ to get started.
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16 June 2024 | 27 replies
. $20k isn't enough to get started, but it's some real progress.