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13 July 2008 | 9 replies
Have the real estate values gone down or remained fairly stable?
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10 November 2008 | 6 replies
-if you are going to paint -W e paint as a matter of course in prepping a house to re-rent
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22 April 2009 | 24 replies
I have towels and shower curtain in the baths, fake flowers for the kitchen shelf, candles in the fireplace to light.
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10 February 2009 | 8 replies
However, I can't tell you how many e-mails I get a day or how often I’m pitched a program that’s going to show me the way (for a fee.)
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24 February 2010 | 4 replies
But you have to first READ A BOOK / E-BOOK to gain that knowledge - like 99% of the Successful have done before you.Which is really a No-Brainer!
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11 January 2015 | 3 replies
Their first purchase became the base for a pyramid of properties bought by constantly remortgaging and using equity from rising values to put down a deposit on yet another house.Their wealth ballooned to more than £100m but apart from a £2m-plus home outside Maidstone and eccentric Burberry suits, their main extravagance was a much derided stable of racehorses.Wilson readily admits that his property empire is heavily mortgaged, but says the loans work out at 61% of the value of the properties.
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13 January 2015 | 22 replies
I am getting 2.2% on a duplex in E.