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Blog Post Schenectady NY Opportunity Zones

Schenectady NY Opportunity Zones

By Ryan Vienneau Saturday, February 16, 2019
Schenectady NY Opportunity ZonesThis article is part of a 4-part series on Capital Region Opportunity Zones.  For more info, check out The Average Investor's Guide to Opportunity Zones, Albany NY Opportunity Zones, and Troy NY Opportunity Zones.  After a 50 year dec...
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Blog Post Troy NY Opportunity Zones

Troy NY Opportunity Zones

By Ryan Vienneau Saturday, February 16, 2019
Troy NY Opportunity ZonesThis article is part of a 4-part series on Capital Region Opportunity Zones.  For more info, check out The Average Investor's Guide to Opportunity Zones, Albany NY Opportunity Zones, and Schenectady NY Opportunity Zones.  Had anyone sug...
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Blog Post Albany NY Opportunity Zones

Albany NY Opportunity Zones

By Ryan Vienneau Monday, February 11, 2019
Albany NY Opportunity ZonesThis article is part of a 4-part series on Capital Region Opportunity Zones.  For more info, check out The Average Investor's Guide to Opportunity Zones, Schenectady NY Opportunity Zones, and Troy NY Opportunity Zones.  Albany NY is e...
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Blog Post The Average Investor's Guide to Opportunity Zones

The Average Investor's Guide to Opportunity Zones

By Ryan Vienneau Tuesday, January 29, 2019
The Average Investor's Guide to Opportunity ZonesThis article is part of a 4-part series on Capital Region Opportunity Zones.  For more info, check out Albany NY Opportunity Zones, Schenectady NY Opportunity Zones, and Troy NY Opportunity Zones.  If you...
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Blog Post 7 Steps to Properly Screening Tenants

7 Steps to Properly Screening Tenants

By Ryan Vienneau Tuesday, December 18, 2018
7 Steps to Properly Screening TenantsWhether you’re an accidental landlord renting out your Saratoga single family or a professional investor with multifamily units throughout Albany, Schenectady, and Troy, having an air-tight tenant screening process is the most important ...
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Blog Post 3 Keys to Ensuring Rent is Always Paid On Time

3 Keys to Ensuring Rent is Always Paid On Time

By Ryan Vienneau Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Back in 2002 while still in college, I purchased my first rental property, a small duplex which came already occupied with tenants in one unit.  My plan was to live in the vacant unit and rent out the other, with the expectation that my rent collected would cover my mortgage...
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Blog Post 8 Things HGTV Gets Wrong About Home Renovations

8 Things HGTV Gets Wrong About Home Renovations

By Ryan Vienneau Tuesday, December 5, 2017
HGTV certainly deserves credit for inspiring a home renovation boom in America, but they also deserve much of the blame for painting a misleading picture of how major home renovations really work in the name of dramatic television. Like Scooby Doo and MacGyver, HGTV has discovere...
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Blog Post Rental Rehab Before and After

Rental Rehab Before and After

By Ryan Vienneau Friday, November 10, 2017
If I could find 100 deals identical to the duplex we bought as an investment property last year in Schenectady, NY, I'd buy them all.  In fact, the economics of this deal worked so well, it completely warped our expectations of every other deal we looked at since, causin...
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Blog Post 10 Seller Financing Myths BUSTED!

10 Seller Financing Myths BUSTED!

By Ryan Vienneau Friday, October 6, 2017
What Is Seller Financing?Seller financing, also known as owner financing, is one of the most misunderstood, mysterious topics in real estate.  Much like mustaches and aviator glasses, seller financing was last popular in the 70’s and 80’s when mortgage interest r...
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Blog Post 7 Not-So-Obvious Questions to Ask Before Hiring Your First Property Manager

7 Not-So-Obvious Questions to Ask Before Hiring Your First Property Manager

By Ryan Vienneau Friday, September 8, 2017
A friend of mine recently relocated to upstate New York from his home state of Texas.  He and his wife wanted a home that was “move-in ready” and settled on a newly remodeled ranch in Saratoga County and moved in this past July.  Within days of moving in, he...
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