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50 Making Money and Und
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61 A Rehab Repair Estima
67 The Secret Sauce to Ma
73 Land Trusts Holding Ben
78 Top 5 Аlternative Financ
81 Exploring The Changing
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"To say that I was a failed investor is putting
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teve Rozenberg, founder of Empire
Industries, LLC and full time commercial
airline pilot, knows what it's like to have your
property investing aspirations crash and burn.
After 911, the airline industry was very shaky...he
wasn’t sure he’d have a career or be able to enjoy a
retirement, so he started looking for other ways to grow
his wealth.
Enter real estate investing…
Like many new investors, he bought a lot of wrong
properties...properties that management companies
didn’t want to touch because they were low income.
Empire Industries, LLC was born out of the need to
manage his own properties to keep his business intact.
Using the procedures and processes he’d learned as a
pilot, Steve and his business partner an IT whiz
created their property management company for their
own preservation so that they could keep their properties
afloat.
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Self management vs property management
“I’m often asked if it’s smarter to self manage your
properties instead of hiring a property manager and my
answer is always that it depends on your end goal.
“So you know, many people focus so much on the
acquisition of the deal they never think about how
they’re going to get the return month after month, year
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