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Waaaaa. If you don't want the rather minimal risk entailed in rental property, don't go into the business.Having somebody else pay your mortgage for you--on an asset that appreciates by double-digits--is a pretty sweet gig. So fuck off.

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Getting a tax break for the property is more likely.

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Love the ending when he pukes on the microphone...

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In NJ, they authorized a one time tax rebate for both property owners AND renters who paid mortgages or rent during the pandemic. Thanks Gov Murphy. The ANCHOR program. Look into it for this tax year.

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More like landleeches.

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The USA is the money laundering capital of the world due to: real estate. Create a shell corp offshore, hire a registered agent in Delaware—Joe’s home state—and you can now purchase any property anywhere for anything. Even if you’re Vlad Putin.

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it's why tyler durden wanted to blow up delaware.well, credit card buildings, but all the same, same bullshit.

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Ever see some of those apartment blocks in Russia? The sentiment is good, but the financial support is not there.

As a side note, the Russian New Year's classic movie, called "The Irony of Fate," is a comedy where a guy returns to the wrong apartment because all the buildings look the same and even have the same street names. An easy mistake if you've had a few too many.

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One has the right to go into business. One has no right to succeed.

Most businesses fail. Usually due to under-capitalization.

If you don't have the capital to handle the situations you describe, you don't have the capital to be a landlord.

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"Two Democrats from Missoula, Reps. Marilyn Marler and Zooey Zephyr, spoke against the bill, because that's how Democrats do, siding with the pot criminals and other renters."

I presume Zooey named her son or daughter Zig-Zag.

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I presume Zooey named her son or daughter Zig-Zag.

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Wow! Written and everything else by Norman Mailer, too. No surprise.

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">An easy mistake if you've had a few too many."

When it comes to wodka, there's no such thing as "too many.

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Anybody trying to grow in an apartment is out of their mind. I grew, and seriously, once, in a single family house that I owned.

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So that's what the ChinaBalloons are doing! -- Operating heat sensors, looking for "unusual electricity usage."

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