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Jay P. Question on "Possession of Real Estate" term
5 June 2017 | 7 replies
Is it Dupage or Cook.
Randall Re II Is it worth it to convert Garage into a rental unit
8 October 2023 | 21 replies
You will also need to install cabinetry and countertops, and you may want to consider adding a small stove or oven if you plan to do more extensive cooking in the space.
Rizalene Acosta Residential Assisted Living Facility in Reno, Nevada
26 June 2020 | 0 replies
Purchase price: $650,000 Cash invested: $65,000 I purchased Ralston as a buy and hold that I am converting into a residential assisted living facility in Reno, NV.
Petar Stojanovski Fastest way to archive old documents?
9 October 2023 | 3 replies
@Petar StojanovskiGet a small self storage facility
Mike Tikh Is real estate investment as simple as it seems?
23 May 2013 | 16 replies
Being guided by rules of thumb can backfire.I've always considered being a landlord as buying a job, sometimes it's a great jo and sometimes not.If you never had the job before, you may miss some things like:A tenant has a guest over who trashes the place...Your tenant turns out to be a cook, a met cook.....Your units/house get red tagged, vacancy may be for months....Tenants die in there, little extra clean up and disclosing the death to new applicants might take longer to rent....Oh, city council just past another safety code for rentals, write a check....Your insurance is cancelled, you don't have a fire escape for the second floor....You find out you still need to evict a tenant who was just sent to prison....It's December 23, 8:00 pm, the furnace just broke down, call a motel....A greese fire just took out the kitchen ceiling.....Oh, the fire burned the electrical, the fire department just red tagged you....The next door neighbor's kid was bitten my your tenant's dog, do you still have the same agent....Notice of Legal Action, April 28th, are you off that day.....Tenant broke a faucet, the place is flooded from the top floor down....Another Order to Appear, a health code violation, the tenant's lawn mower is broken....How's that easy money going for ya?
Manuel Angeles Los Angeles Commercial Industrial Market Report as of October 1, 2023
7 October 2023 | 0 replies
The vacancy rate has risen from 1.7% in 22Q1 to 4.2% today, with sharper increases in tradedependent submarkets such as Vernon, Commerce, and Central Los Angeles, as well as in older facilities across the county.
John Graves Who is in Charleston SC?
19 August 2023 | 3 replies
Id love to cook some food at one of the events and chat REI around the grill.
Matthew Cyriac Newbie with 1 Rental Property looking to learn, grow & give
5 March 2019 | 9 replies
Team Massey - Castle & Cooke Mortgage
Shane H. Bookkeeper holding Financial info hostage??? Advice please
6 October 2023 | 35 replies
(For those that ask why not hire in house - I just dont have the scale YET to hire our own in house - when I get another facility up and going i will - as I want to pay someone doing the books well so I get someone good)Anyways Jan 2019 through 1 of my former staff and 1 present staff when they went to do their taxes we found out the bookkeeper screwed up on withholding for these staff and it may cost me around $5k or more - we also found other mistakes recently like sending out payroll deductions (garnishments) on an employee who was on our payroll but hadn't worked for us in 3 mos since they had a child and were  on a leave of absence. 
Ross Bowman Peak of the market: gurus everywhere
5 February 2021 | 99 replies
By the spring of 1928, every type of person was opening a brokerage account - according to one contemporary account 'school teachers, seamstresses, barbers, machinists, necktie salesmen, gas fitters, motormen, family cooks, and lexicographers.'