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Specifically, what's holding you back from growing your real estate business?
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When I first started doing STRs in my town, there were at least 3 other people doing the same thing and catering to the same target market (refinery contractors). Over the course of 3-5 years, those other people got ...
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Let me start out by telling a you a short story. Bare with cause what I have to say could be very lucrative ...
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Before you got that first deal, or once you had that first deal in your hands, what fears did you have? How did you overcome them?
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A $300k assignment fee may not be the largest in the history of investing, but it sure was the largest in my history of investing. I was at a trade show as a vendor when a local investor that knew of me walked up prom...
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The authors claim work from home and flight from urban areas are behind this boom. This seems to not be the case in AK, new construction sales actually went down from 44 units June last year to only 30 closings this y...
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Sam Zell is making big moves as they are acquiring Archstone's 45,000 rental properties and the seller's development and land sites.
http://www.worldpropertychannel.com/featured-columnists/done-deals-column-sam-zel...
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I’m about to make an offer on my first deal as a real estate investor and I just wanted to pick everybody’s brain to see what their biggest mistake was on their first deal. Thank you very much for the input and I hop...
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The Washington Post published an article from an outside contributor (and investor), Conor Sen, claiming that while software was the biggest business story of the last five years, housing will rule the next five years...