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Hello everyone!! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all!! My name is Michael Core and I'm a real estate investor and small business owner in the Atlanta area. I have an Accounting background and worked for 14 year...
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I have a property that is in a lower income area. Not a war zone, just a working class, mostly Hispanic area. It's a C or C+ neighborhood I suppose.
I want to put a For Rent sign in the front yard but didn't ...
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I am getting a cash out refinance mortgage on one of my rentals and will be using the cash to rehab another property to rent out. As I understand it, the appraisal fee and some other closing costs are not immediately ...
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Evictions suck for the landlord and for the tenant nobody wants to see anybody get evicted and sure as hell landlords do not want to evict however it is necessary so that poses a question. 1. Because Home owners are ...
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Since mid 2020 when I started trying to better myself and put my life on a positive and successful track I have been spending every spare second gathering as much information as possible and putting it together to sha...
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I've been trying to figure out how to become a legit investor again in my own market outside of the most common ways (big banks, traditional loans, etc.) and have been reading and listening (for quite some time now) t...
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Allow me to catch you up to speed before moving forward. My career path has been more crooked than a hunchback lawyer. I began like most; working odd jobs throughout high school. From grocery store cashier to pizza de...
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Hey BP!First off I want to say that this is the best forum I've ever read and interacted with. Though I'm new here, I can tell from all the forum posts I've read that this is a very welcoming, educational and civil fo...