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What kind of crazy responses have you had to your letters sent offering to buy someone's house?
I've had someone completely chew me out for sending "all of those f'ing" letters and threatened to kick my butt. He expr...
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Hello,I have a contractor that is requesting 50% of what he quoted the job up front. It isn’t a super large sum of money, but I’m curious on what type of things I should do/look for to protect myself. As of now all I ...
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I recently had my rental property thoroughly remodeled w/ my property management in charge.They took a month to get a tenant. When they got a new tenant he reported the heater did not work. He had no hot water. The pr...
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I have heard of the technique of avoiding potential FC problems by having a borrower essential pre-sign a Deed in Lieu which basically says, if the loan defaults this Deed in Lieu becomes enforceable.
Sounds too good...
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Hello everyone!Quick bit about me- I'm a data scientist working in NYC and literally just started looking into REI a week ago. Mostly because of the dream I have of retiring early with a nice cash flow, but also partl...
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Was having fun with a skid steer moving dirt around. Monotonous and let my mind wander to the topic of Scaling, while driving. Filling in a low spot just preparing if we decide to build next year. Love doing cheap...
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With apologies to J Scott - typically, my team and I refer to our houses by the street number. In this case, we have two houses side-by-side, and referring to them by the street number is confusing everyone... so we'r...
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Flipping my first house and first time dealing with sub-contractors. The electrician that gave the best bid wants 50% up front. I balked at that and he said he can do 25% up front. He said he doesn't want to fund i...