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18 August 2019 | 1 reply
Assessment of where you're buying and its 'frothiness factor'2 - Your need for cash flow vs longer term appreciation/equity building, mainly will depend on your time horizon with owning the asset3 - Your skills/ capabilities - some people are more naturally geared towards handling lower class areas, tenants, and usually the items that come up maintenance wise with this.The advice I usually give to 'youngins' (I'm 36 by the way) is to take the long view - which means the equity building, and your TIME to continue focusing on your career, building skills, etc - would lead me to be biased towards the property that you felt would hold / appreciate in value more over time.....
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21 August 2019 | 71 replies
Changing an entry knob or a deadbolt is one of the easiest basic handyman skills to learn.
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6 May 2019 | 12 replies
Sweat equity seems daunting being as I am a pen-pushing millennial with no handy skills as well as spending all too much time at work. what are your thoughts?
30 April 2019 | 0 replies
When I got laid off, I saw an opportunity to try to educate myself with alongside a partner who is skilled in rehabbing.
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11 May 2019 | 5 replies
What I have found though is they are too slow and too expensive to do too many lien searches and sometimes not all that skilled in helping you figure out areas of concern on a property you don't own.You might check out a site like https://www.titlesearchdirect.com/ and see if that helps.
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1 May 2019 | 6 replies
There are larger teams than that which will help you with listing presentations and fundamental RE skills that you would not have gained from being completely independent from the start.
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1 May 2019 | 2 replies
Hello everyone, I 've come across few youtube video that teaches people how to use a business credit card to cover the downpayment, soft cost, and etc...
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7 May 2019 | 7 replies
More importantly, great ideas won't work for you because you don't have the same skill set as the person advising you.
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3 May 2019 | 29 replies
If someone had the skill to predict the market, they would be making boat loads of money.Your's or my guess is as good as anybody elses, my $0.02
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1 May 2019 | 0 replies
There is a process or system out there around making "soft offers" too realtors about properties.