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11 December 2017 | 62 replies
He’s mastered the art of raising private money and the classic “Nothing Down” deal.
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21 February 2014 | 25 replies
Why I am going into REI, my price range, my niche, my financing strategy, as well as finding a mentor and developing a marketing plan and exit strategy.I keep hearing over and over to go look at 100 houses, basically meaning to look at all the houses in my territory to get a beat on the market.I did a tour of about 10 with a realtor, which was nice because she was able to get me inside the houses and tell me some things I didn't know.However, I don't want to make her drive me around to 100 houses while I just chalk it up to learning.
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11 April 2014 | 28 replies
Now that LFA well its just never going to be cheap but thats a piece of art, not a toy.
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28 April 2014 | 10 replies
I graduated with two masters degrees last year in May (MFA Fine Arts, MA Visual and Critical Studies) and was working occasionally as a gallery preparator while school was in session.
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6 March 2020 | 18 replies
I'm realizing that is more of an art than a science, and takes a ton of practice.
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23 November 2014 | 6 replies
Churches, alumni, fraternal & social work agencies, or organizations typically, along with thousands of arts, education, cultural & industry specific associations make a lot of effort to donate, or subsidize housing---in particular. if your mortgage is $ 300K at 6% apr using $ 2,500 a month in the first few years nearly $ 18K will be deductible. if you're renting to some tenants certain programs will filter far more inducements to both you and the tenant. obviously there are reasons that you'd most likely want to own units that cost $ 60K and rent for $ 1,500 a month to make even more sense out of these opportunities. when i was 23 my best friend a newly mented attorney, who lived with me pursued buying a 2 family home that the City of NY's Housing Development Preservation (HPD) offered us for $ 1. it needed about $ 150K of improvements. we were supposed to borrow the $ 150K at 1% interest under a very aggressive renovation schedule that returned the property to it's fully taxed assessed value in 90 to 120 days; or we'd have to pay 2% apr for the sums we elected to borrow from an HPD aligned lender. my income was 3 times the lawyers; and i wanted him to live in another 26 unit apartment building we were developing under an even more lucrative program that allowed us to borrow $ 500K at 1%, if we ("I") put down $ 25K. i wound up renovating the apartment building on my credit cards and we walked away from the 2 family: due to the lawyer's reluctance to move into the apartment building. i actually felt that having him in my own apartment really confused the women that visited me.
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4 December 2014 | 2 replies
Check out BiggerPockets.com/tour for more and then jump into the community!
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30 March 2015 | 19 replies
I toured their properties and neighborhoods, and learned about their culture, met most of their staff, and interviewed with key personal.
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27 May 2015 | 14 replies
He was doing a group tour and on-site auction of a house in a school district I regularly buy in.
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27 May 2015 | 11 replies
I know this is important when people are touring the property.