Now, I Remember Why I Like Real Estate
By Ken Montville, The MD Suburbs of DC
(RE/MAX United Real Estate)
Years ago, I worked with a husband and wife who were buying their first investment home. They had grand dreams (or, at least, the wife did) of buying a house a year until it was time to retire and they'd live off the rental income or sell a few homes to tide them over in the Golden Years. Luckily, the husband was a pretty handy guy who wasn't afraid to roll of his sleeves and the wife became the Queen of Craigslist finding all kinds of great bargains for appliances and the like. They both went in with their eyes open. They needed a mortgage for the first house and it took a little doing but we found one. This was back in the days when you culd get a mortgage if you could fog a mirror but even so.... Time went by. They did another deal with a FSBO and didn't call me. Oh well. Then c...
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