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Hello All, I've read that if you do your own property management, the number recommendation is to not reveal that you are the owner. (I'm planning to Owner Occupy a duplex as my first real estate investment purchase.)...
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My husband and I are looking to buy but financially it would make sense to move into something that could also help us pay the mortgage. We however have children. It kinda bothers my husband that we would have tenants...
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Many "Guru's" will say real estate will be dead by all the big/private firms buying into the real estate market , eventually flooding it where they hold all the inventory and control the market. Many topics are discu...
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According to Tom Bay’s book, Look Within or Do Without, Harvard Business School did a study on how well its students were doing financially 10 years after they graduated. Here’s what he found:
•27% needed financial a...
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Hi guys,
I'm getting ready to list for rent for the first time and am curious about your rental application criteria for tenants? This is what I'm thinking. But honestly, it seems like it might be too cumbersome? I'm...
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I am seeking rentals in the Hazel Park/Madison Heights Michigan area and so far I have only purchased three bed houses. There are some good deals on two bed and I would like to know if any of you have had good fortun...
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Attention Landlords and Property Managers
In my neck of the woods, we are having record setting extreme cold temperature that seem to keep lingering on and on. In the past, we are use to having a spike for ...
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My Journey as an Investor: I started investing in buy and hold properties in May of 2014. Triggered by the loss of my 80 year old mother early that year, a lady with very minimum formal education- she had managed to...
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Im in the middle of this on right now. First off the tenant was 2 months behind on rent and I was starting eviction when I went past and they had moved out in the middle of the night. When I went in the carpet were to...
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Over the last decade or so, my wife and I have put together a nice little rental portfolio, we've really grown as landlords and property managers, and we have a nice little life that's just getting nicer. Net rental i...