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My day job is for a paper company. I'm a salaried manager and I've been working here for 33 years. A few years ago me and my wife started buying rental property so we could retire a few years earlier than we normally ...
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I was just thinking about the first deal I did a couple of years ago and how it came together.
It was an investor that had bought about 40 homes back in like 2010 and never paid taxes on any of them so it was...
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I am going out on a limb here, and stating emphatically that NO LANDLORD should EVER pay for their Tenants Water Usage. Do you agree?
Here are my reasons:
1.) Personal Accountability: They use it, T...
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I'm doing some passive investing in trust deeds and thankfully have never had any issues with defaults yet. I'm not setting up my own trust deeds, I'm investing though hard money lenders who do everything and I write...
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10 months ago I was driving up and down every road in this new town of Iron Mountain MI trying to get a feel for the quality of the neighborhoods and characteristics of the market. I still had a few weeks of college l...
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Just curious to see if anyone else is investing in this area. Kind of a small place but with dirt cheap housing. If anyone works in this area there might be opportunity for collaboration or at least war-story excha...
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For those of you who have jumped into real estate investments to reach the goal of financial independence, what is the lifestyle you have visualized for yourself after you have done so?For those of you who have reache...
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Hello all,I have been looking at this new CD for a few months now. My research says it’s legitimate, can’t find anything saying otherwise online. Anyone using this? A 1 month CD returning 6% seems too good to be true ...
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Hi fellow landlords,This year I have been particularly lucky to have 3 AC units blow up and 2 properties have flooding due to sewage back up in my properties (all SFRs). I wanted to ask the experts here if there is a ...