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Seriously, since joining this community and reading these forums for the last 2-3 days, I don't believe I've seen a group of more enthusiastic, motivational, inspirational group of people in my life!! The only thing ...
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A little about me before anything else. I'm a Maintenance Supervisor in the property management business in California. I have some construction rehab / estimating experience along with decades of maintaining apartmen...
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I have several SFH rentals that I own and part-time manage. My wife and I took sabbatical this year to embark on an adventure with our two kids. Without a property management company and without the interest to find o...
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I am a conservative investor who has a good income and good liquidity. I have a rental home that is getting into a range where I can pay it off this coming year. The benefits to this are:
-less debt
-increased cash fl...
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Hi everyone! I plan on living in Plano, TX for a W-2 job, and I am eager to buy a property in the city. I have been considering trying to leverage an FHA loan; however, there are not many affordable duplexes in the ar...
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It seems to me that despite the near-constant protests to the contrary from certain people in the dark recesses of the internet, the tendency of large countries with powerful militaries is that they do not collapse.
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I would like to hear from several of the historians here that went through the most recent housing collapse back in 2007 through 2010 regarding what happened to their buy and hold strategy in that kind of environment....
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I recently did a survey of all of the hard / private money lenders I know in the industry. I also posted the survey on LinkedIn to get answers from the hard/private money lenders I don’t know. The question I asked the...
Alright so I'm sure there are a lot of good complete systems/programs that people have developed but if you had to choose one single thing you do that has the biggest impact on your success, what would it be?