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Hi everyone! My name is Craig Richardson. I'm from Newton, MA. I started doing construction and landscaping as summer jobs back in high school. I really enjoyed working on and around houses and, after accruing a hefty...
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What do you think about Real Estate investment in Detroit?
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Let's test the waters here. I'm looking at a mom and pop cafe that has a cap rate of 8%. It's a first floor retail condo in a downtown D.C., but in the neighborhood section not the business district where offices ar...
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Do you verify if your tenant's dog is on the dangerous breed list and do you have them provide proof of picture to keep in their file?
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Hi,
A week ago one of the houses I own had a plumbing issue at 1:00 am. We called the 24*7 plumbing and snaked the line immediately and later the next morning took care of changing the entire plumbing line up...
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I am under contract for a single family house in Stamford, CT. There is an underground oil tank in the front of the house. The previous owners used a company called, "Technical Environmental Construction, Inc." to aba...
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I spoke to a ate-stage college planning specialist. He helps parents of high school students plan and pay for college using strategies such as merit aid, need based aid, tax planning, savings and investing for college...
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Is there some special consideration you give this? I looked at an REO today with Extreme mold. I mean I've never seen anything like it. Supposedly the pipes burst, to me it looks like someone turned the water on and w...
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Top ten reasons you will lose money on your first BRRRR. This list has been pulled directly from the school of hard knocksGenerally speaking and based on NY building code1. You think the cheapest house has the most m...
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I recently bought a list of about 8500 names from ListSource to use for some marketing (absentee owners). I'm curious what kind of failure rate others have experienced with them, because I'm sitting on about 500 retu...