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BiggerPocket Folk - I need your advice. I am new and my investor friend is out of town for a while. I put in an offer on a duplex and they accepted the offer. I have no idea what the next steps are.
The pr...
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my mother is renting out a room in her home. There is no lease a verbal agreement. The tenants has become a seriously bad drunk who is verbally/mentally abusive toward her. He stays up till early morning drinking with...
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Hi There,I have a tenant who has been having issues with his air conditioning on and off since last summer. Each time, we send our super to check the controls and if we need to, we call the air conditioning tech to co...
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BiggerPocket Folk - I need your advice. I am new and my investor friend is out of town for a while. I put in an offer on a duplex and they accepted the offer. I have no idea what the next steps are.
The pr...
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So I made a bad decision to rent to family. My sister in law has been renting from my wife and I. She lives in one unit of a duplex with roommates and we live next door in the other. We have been going into each other...
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I am going to resubmit some offers and wanted to know if I should send another contract or do a verbal offer. Which is a better choice?
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So we made a verbal offer to the seller's agent, and he sent a text message back that they accepted the offer. Is this binding in any way? We're getting nervous...
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I've been researching and wanting to start investing for years now but always had an excuse (nerves) not to. I recently agreed verbally on a deal ( pending finding a bank to mortgage such a small loan) with a guy who ...
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I don't know if it has been mentioned before, but the book "Verbal Judo" by George Thompson is a great read for anybody. Dealing with difficult people (renters) and situations is something we all face on a daily b...
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I'm wondering if it is proper etiquette to contact the listing agent for a property and just make a verbal offer to see if the seller would be interested in my price? I don't want to annoy my own agent by asking her t...