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21 March 2024 | 7 replies
I would find local credit unions or small banks, essentially portfolio lenders who hold the loans in house.
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21 March 2024 | 8 replies
Join your local REI groups.
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20 March 2024 | 3 replies
Any current roadblocks including time-to rehab permits being issued, local landlord laws/trends, property tax to rent YoY trends, etc.
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22 March 2024 | 22 replies
As are cellular towers, fiber, the internet, the local gas station, vape shop, computer monitors, keyboards, search engines, and just about everything else you can imagine.
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20 March 2024 | 2 replies
I also organize our local meetup in Dothan.
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20 March 2024 | 8 replies
Local governments haven't a clue as to the dramatic shift in the business they caused and ultimately higher rents and tighter standards they created.
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20 March 2024 | 7 replies
There not reality, go to your local RE meetup You will learn more in a few days then months and months of reading.
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20 March 2024 | 0 replies
I am local Realtor here in Southern California.
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20 March 2024 | 5 replies
Like local senator office for some distric manager.
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20 March 2024 | 10 replies
He's based in the UK so he's not local to the markets he works in so you really need to vet their entire leadership and staff who manage the execution, not just the owner.