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I usually hear about qualities we need from our real estate agents as investors, but I don't generally know what agents need, especially when working with investors. What does your ideal, investor, working relationshi...
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Having just spent the last 5 days touring Portugal its apparent this move that Clayton and his wife made has yet again been to their benefit at the cost of their investors.
This is hardly any kind of hardship on them...
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Let's say you are a brand new investor. You are 40 years old and you have a family. You have $80K in your savings account, and you decide you want to invest in real estate.
Knowing what you know now, what would you...
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Any thoughts!! Is this new??
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