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29 January 2011 | 1 reply
Mods, feel free to close this post.Happy trails!
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25 January 2011 | 5 replies
Stick with the type of main run that is there now.Quick way to tell: Go look at the outside box.
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24 January 2011 | 24 replies
Big box commercial buildings hands down.Single tenant, long lease, high rental income, cheap property management costs, etc.Once a lease is signed it's a no brainer for 7 years.
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26 January 2011 | 28 replies
Even if you think QuickBooks isn't hard to learn on your own.QuickBooks allows you to set account types and classes so that at tax time reports can be produced to identify which amounts fall into what box on tax forms (OK, it's not quite as simple as that, but the accountant will then know which numbers are supposed to go where).My accountant also set me up with some excel spreadsheets to do certain things.
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31 October 2011 | 31 replies
Oh no more signs - Signs Signs ever where a signI tried the sighs once, everyone probably has, after 5 hours of that I got sick of it and Bought a 1 ton truck with a 12 foot box on the back, guess what I put on it...And I got a lot of calls from that truck and secured a lot of deals...
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30 January 2011 | 8 replies
Their prices AND quality beat Home Depot or some other big box store.
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30 January 2011 | 5 replies
If they are OK with you being an INVESTOR firstThe big box agencies never made sense to me for an investor/agent who isnt doing retail.
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2 June 2011 | 40 replies
THEN, the "seller" can't produce an LOA, the "buyer" realizes he can't buy diddly-squat with just a random email sitting there in his "read" box.
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14 September 2020 | 9 replies
ALSO, if we can grab a better rate down the road, they will do a loan mod for $250.
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9 February 2011 | 20 replies
I almost fell off my chair laughing because they checked off a box that said something in the effect of didn't qualify for the loan we needed.