Indignant is not a very strong adjective. True, it hits much harder than its perfumed and delicate cousin petulance, but carries nowhere near the weight of its 3 elder brothers- rage, infuriation, and even exasperation. We all have somewhat unique ...

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The final rental property system has to do with the turnover time between tenants. This could be as short as a couple of days (my favorite) or a month or two (not good). Here are the goals we have for ...

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Did you ever notice that some of the very funniest things we have as memories and to tell stories about were not the least bit funny at the time the event(s) occurred? I had a rental property in Michigan where ...

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What are Personal Guarantees and Why On Earth would anybody sign one? A Personal Guarantees is a promise to pay corporate debt if the corporation is unable to do so.   A personal guarantee can eliminate a primary benefit of ...

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Many of us have vague notions (mostly secondhand, or worse, so dislocated from the source that we cannot begin to gauge their authenticity) of the best time of year to buy or sell a home (two sides of the same ...

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You’ll find endless debate in real estate circles about whether you should buy houses, mobile home parks, apartment buildings, raw land, or commercial buildings.  It’s impossible to say that every person should concentrate on one or the other, but I ...

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“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants”.  Sir Isaac Newton The Charlotte Real community has suffered a great loss with the passing of JC Underwood, 15 year Executive Director of the Metrolina Real ...

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You may have heard the common phrase “whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right!” Do you believe you can be successful? If so, you can. Do you believe you have to stay stuck in ...

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But what, you may ask; does this recalcitrant youth’s behavior have to do with real estate investing? Nothing in some ways, and in some ways- everything.  (By the way, to stave off accusations that I made that headline up, the ...

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When starting a new business there are many things to contemplate. Here are a few issues to address.   Choice of entity: Choosing the proper business entity is very important and a requisite first step in starting a new business.  ...

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