If the guy's solid and has been in for several years, I'm a lot more comfortable than I am with someone who started this year -- then it starts looking like a shell game.Every adult must be on the lease, and each must pass your screening tests, and each must be responsible for the entire rent.

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The “buy it for one thousand, sell it for thirty thousand on terms, hope they default, repeat” era left a real scar on this niche.But that’s not the structure I operate in, and it’s not the structure anyone should be using if they want a sustainable business with real buyers.I don’t work in the bottom five percent zip codes, I’m not touching one thousand to five thousand dollar shells, and I’m not doing deed transfers with long foreclosure timelines.

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As most of you, we were a bit shell shocked by the price. 

if you shell out a huge down payment with no way to get it back, it doesn't really matter whether your rate is 6.5 or 2.5 - that capital is trapped equity at least for a while.and it sounds like you might be saying principal paydown isn't powerful... but it is, over the long term, which is why i am in this.but maybe i'm not understanding your post.happy to dialogue further 

@Abdul Ahad Shahzadthis is why i don't buy if i have to shell out a big down payment i don't get back. 

The AI I’m building doesn’t care about data scraping, it cares about conversations and in person connections.It’s a wearable device that helps capture client interactions in the field (with consent), summarizes them, and updates your notes or CRM automatically.

Kiyos is a shell contractor who performed over a million dollars of shell work and never got paid.  

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