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29 November 2017 | 10 replies
I got my RE license in Louisiana to make it easier to find investment properties.
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24 November 2017 | 4 replies
Although we don’t anticipate any issues, we had a proper agreement of sale, mortgage and note, and we are closing with a title company (so there was a title search and we have title insurance) and will be using a loan servicing company to avoid any confusion about payments, balances due and taxes.
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24 November 2017 | 0 replies
Quick rundown on me, my wife is a licensed agent and me and my business partner plan on buying our first deal as soon as we find one.
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25 November 2017 | 6 replies
Would a proper comparison be rehabbing a house yourself vs hiring a contractor?
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6 December 2017 | 33 replies
Hire licensed contractors , throw out the low bid .
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8 January 2018 | 3 replies
Of course I don’t trust mgrs to source proper tenants, but that’s the doing of my business’s mentor from back in the day.
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24 November 2017 | 1 reply
Quick rundown on me, my wife is a licensed agent and me and my business partner plan on buying our first deal as soon as we find one.
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25 November 2017 | 1 reply
I'm also an upcoming real estate investor, I have my real estate license here in California and have started to analyze properties in my market area.
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1 December 2017 | 12 replies
I think we would be interested and willing to have someone we paid a nominal fee each year just to be able to answer a call or a couple of emails.Maybe do an initial consultation and/ or an annual checkup and onboarding to get us set up properly in terms of entities etc. ie does it make sense to create an llc.maybe have an packet available to answer basic questions like dos and donts of fair housing, evictions, Collections, recent law changes,the setup and use of an llc, trusts, wills etcThat way we are initially doing things properly and have built a relationship before we have larger engagements or are paying thousands due to initial poor planning.
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25 November 2017 | 5 replies
Hi all,I am wondering about real estate sales / broker license reciprocity.