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Hello All,
I've been on this forum (on and off) for years and never quite made anything work in Real Estate as I didn't have the income or credit to invest. I sold my property a couple of years ago and moved from IL....
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Life can be very unpredictable.
Something I could have never predicted was becoming a brokerage owner at an early start in my real estate career.
Being thrown into an unfamiliar industry, I was entrusted with managi...
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Interesting TIME article about root cause of the US financial crisis .... not sure I agree but put a different spin on what I've read and believed before:
"There is no doubt that the pressure on the U.S. financial sy...
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I keep coming across posters asking for advice on how to “scale” their investment or business activities. What they’re missing is that they first need to ask “Is my business / investment process scalable? Here’s, th...
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My wife just recently passed the real estate exam. It has been a dream of ours to own rental properties. I am currently a full-term student, majoring in business management. I started a real estate business with the f...
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One thing that has always made me generally distrustful of gurus is the question of what motivates anyone to become a guru in the first place. If the methods and techniques taught are are so great, why waste time teac...
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The NAR (National Association of Realtors) just sent out this communication to Realtors yesterday, Saturday the 21st. It covers various concerns of real estate agents, MFR property owners, Mortgage lenders, etc.
For...
Just graduated college in December and decided I want to start 2023 on the right note. Jumping both feet into Real Estate since I've always been passionate about it. Currently, I'm working towards getting my real esta...
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I've been preapproved for a $516K VA Loan, which is the entitlement I had left, to purchase a home in Honolulu. For this amount, my options are pretty much condos/townhomes in good neighborhoods. I could probably buy ...