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Apr 10, 2012 23:10:53 GMT -5
Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 10, 2012 23:10:53 GMT -5
Y'all bit on another Doxie thread!
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Apr 10, 2012 23:23:17 GMT -5
Post by Apple on Apr 10, 2012 23:23:17 GMT -5
I read the OP then closed the window. I won't look again!
On the other hand, I did try crackberries for the first time tonight. Um, damn, I will NOT eat the whole bag in one setting.
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Apr 10, 2012 23:28:15 GMT -5
Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Apr 10, 2012 23:28:15 GMT -5
I didn't bite - I read a couple of posts - and as soon as my eyes started to glaze over, I exited immediately.
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Apr 11, 2012 6:35:09 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2012 6:35:09 GMT -5
I think it is possible Rick. My husband's ex-wife is doing very well with her 5 rentals. So far (knock on wood) we have been very lucky with our rental. We get a little more than our house payment for rent. It isn't making us rich, but it is paying the mortgage.
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Apr 11, 2012 7:02:11 GMT -5
Post by busymom on Apr 11, 2012 7:02:11 GMT -5
Personally, I'm a little rental-shy. Had a friend who rented a house for years, & the last renters he had totally trashed the place, including kicking holes in the walls. He repaired the damage, & sold the place. He said "never again"....
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Post by wvugurl26 on Apr 11, 2012 7:22:26 GMT -5
Y'all bit on another Doxie thread! I'm weak I know!
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Apr 11, 2012 8:17:46 GMT -5
Post by NancysSummerSip on Apr 11, 2012 8:17:46 GMT -5
Aw, why not? It's blogpost fodder for me, and highly educational and entertaining for others!
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Apr 11, 2012 8:19:34 GMT -5
Post by kimber45 on Apr 11, 2012 8:19:34 GMT -5
Dang I missed it
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Apr 11, 2012 10:25:59 GMT -5
Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 11, 2012 10:25:59 GMT -5
Aw, why not? It's blogpost fodder for me, and highly educational and entertaining for others! That is one woman whose priorities are so skewed that I simply cannot wrap my brain around it. Nothing is going to change in her brain, and it is going to take an incredible tragedy to make her see how skewed her priorities are. IOW, if she was 30 years younger, she'd be called a spoiled brat.
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Apr 11, 2012 10:29:38 GMT -5
Post by Bob Ross on Apr 11, 2012 10:29:38 GMT -5
I like how everyone over there figures they are going to get rich buying real estate and becoming landlords Are you kidding? Landlording is the easiest thing since doing nothing at all. All you do is cash checks and buy more property until you're so rich that you don't know what's what. The internet doesn't lie.
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Apr 11, 2012 10:30:34 GMT -5
Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 11, 2012 10:30:34 GMT -5
I think it is possible Rick. My husband's ex-wife is doing very well with her 5 rentals. So far (knock on wood) we have been very lucky with our rental. We get a little more than our house payment for rent. It isn't making us rich, but it is paying the mortgage. I'm not saying it isn't possible, but from what I have seen over there, there are a lot of folks that have no idea how much time and effort its going to require. I get the impression they think they can buys a few houses and the dough just starts rolling in while they sit back with their big cigar and count money. I see this as well. I remember a poster on another board who wanted to to this. He went into it totally naive and would do the exact opposite of what another poster (who owned a buttload of rentals and had done this for 30+ years) suggested. He left the board and I often wonder how things worked out. He was the male equivalent of Doxie.
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Apr 11, 2012 10:34:08 GMT -5
Post by thyme4change on Apr 11, 2012 10:34:08 GMT -5
I've heard so many stories like this - from real life people. I know 3 families that discovered their tenants cooking meth. They had to pay a special haz-mat team to clean the place. Apparantly, many renters have extreme problems with dry wall, and keeping it on the walls. I never knew it was such a talent - but apparantly, sometimes dry wall just crumbles. Never happened in any of the houses I've ever lived in, but I can't wait to meet the landlord that didn't have this problem. Also, urinating in a toilet seems to be a special talent. Of course, my husband doesn't possess 100% accuracy there, but at least he is in the bathroom, and we can just clean up the tile a little.
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Apr 11, 2012 10:40:22 GMT -5
Post by Bob Ross on Apr 11, 2012 10:40:22 GMT -5
I've heard so many stories like this - from real life people. Pfft. Real life people. What do they know?
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Apr 11, 2012 14:44:48 GMT -5
Post by swamp on Apr 11, 2012 14:44:48 GMT -5
I do a lot of evictions for landlords, so I only see the horror stories. I keep thinking we "should" have rentals, and then I wake up and realize I don't want to deal with it.
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Apr 11, 2012 14:46:42 GMT -5
Post by Green Eyed Lady on Apr 11, 2012 14:46:42 GMT -5
Y'all bit on another Doxie thread! LOL!! Guess it got you, too!
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Apr 11, 2012 15:02:29 GMT -5
Post by NastyWoman on Apr 11, 2012 15:02:29 GMT -5
And then I found another thread started by Dark that should be labelled "Doxie by Proxy" - although he came up with a totally lame title
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Apr 11, 2012 16:54:36 GMT -5
Post by mollyanna58 on Apr 11, 2012 16:54:36 GMT -5
I just look at the page count on the Doxie threads in amazement. Her new one is 17 pages so far, and Dark's is 10!
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Apr 11, 2012 17:11:17 GMT -5
Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 11, 2012 17:11:17 GMT -5
Y'all bit on another Doxie thread! LOL!! Guess it got you, too! Guilty as charged.
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Apr 12, 2012 9:12:50 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2012 9:12:50 GMT -5
We had a rental property for about 18 years but I paid someone to manage it for me. Just based on what I saw long distance I figured that managing it just wasn't for me. Damage to property, people skipping out, etc sure took it's toll on any profit. Of course I did end up more or less with a paid off house BUT me dealing with it day to day would have been a pain.
Dare I say it.....I did notice that we NEVER had a problem renting to the local military (could have been just luck). On the other hand renting to even upper class type people that weren't military tended to cost us money. One manager of the local country club move out & it cost me about $3,000 to get the place rent able again. WTH? And a double WTH when I realized that he didn't steal a closet door, he used it to replace the front door that the stole.
For me society is just to full of human waste to bother with hoping to not rent to human waste. I came to this conclusion a few months back when I had the chance to buy a rental property that I could have had a positive cash flow from day one. It just wasn't worth the aggravation.
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Apr 12, 2012 18:53:38 GMT -5
Post by mollyanna58 on Apr 12, 2012 18:53:38 GMT -5
29 pages; up 12 in one day
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Apr 12, 2012 21:09:02 GMT -5
Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 12, 2012 21:09:02 GMT -5
But Doxie's problem is long forgotten.
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