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All Forum Posts by: Dustin Somers

Dustin Somers has started 9 posts and replied 28 times.

Post: Best use of large amount of cash

Dustin SomersPosted
  • Real Estate Agent
  • Sparks, NV
  • Posts 28
  • Votes 19

@Mark Seery. Look outside of the greater Bay Area. There are properties all over the place that will easily cash flow $250 -500 per door with 20% down i have bought two multifamily in the last year that are cash cows

Post: Whole Life Insurance for Wealth Building

Dustin SomersPosted
  • Real Estate Agent
  • Sparks, NV
  • Posts 28
  • Votes 19

I really appreciate all the great input received today,  My goal in starting this post was to gather input from those of you with first hand experience,   I am not selling this product nor do I have any personal experience in the use of it, I have done a fair amount of reading on the subject I do believe that a permanent life insurance policy set up correctly can offer great benefits when it comes to over all wealth and the ability to borrow for outside investments.   I see the apprehensiveness of some due to many of the notes mentioned above but I also believe for every negative there is a positive also many items mentioned above.   

A few questions remain 

1- If I chose to sell a policy after say 25 years and $1,000,000 invested (actual deposits)  what would that sell look like ? to whom do I sell? are the terms negotiable ? could I actually get my invested back out or more ? 

2- what if I had a substantial loan against my policy at the time of death, knowing my cash value is held as collateral would the effect the pay out to my heirs? 

3- I have herd 0f people investing their money into a policy like this rather than their 401k or other traditional retirement plan as their primary source of retirement income ?   How does a monthly withdraw like this work ?   or is this even accurate ?

I have been and will continue to do the research on my own but I am impatient and have burning questions I just don't want to wait and find for myself,  so I figured why not leverage the masterminds of the bigger pockets community  

DS

Post: Whole Life Insurance for Wealth Building

Dustin SomersPosted
  • Real Estate Agent
  • Sparks, NV
  • Posts 28
  • Votes 19

Thank you for the response I will do some research on the maximum overfunded Index Universal Life insurance,   

When funding such a product is it recommended to fund in larger lump sum all at the start or is it wiser to take the small monthly contributions approach. 

Post: Whole Life Insurance for Wealth Building

Dustin SomersPosted
  • Real Estate Agent
  • Sparks, NV
  • Posts 28
  • Votes 19

Does anyone in the bigger pockets community have personal experience with a Whole Life Insurance policy or Wealth Maximization Account to help build their wealth and real-estate portfolio.

Post: Cash flow minimum on SFH

Dustin SomersPosted
  • Real Estate Agent
  • Sparks, NV
  • Posts 28
  • Votes 19

@Jeremy Torres. I have asked myself this questions many times. As mentioned above by several people that depends on your goals. However i have also found success and piece of mind in the 200-300/door range so long as that CF is after all expenses are covered including a designated amount set aside for cap ex and repairs

Post: Brokers for Roth IRA

Dustin SomersPosted
  • Real Estate Agent
  • Sparks, NV
  • Posts 28
  • Votes 19

@Kadejah Johnson. I would highly recommend reading Tony Robbins book “money master the game” before you go with any advisor or any type of market account. The education could save you hundreds of thousands or more. IRAs Roth’s and similar accounts can be very expensive and provide horrible returns a very good understanding of these is literally worth millions

Post: A Landlord's Insight...

Dustin SomersPosted
  • Real Estate Agent
  • Sparks, NV
  • Posts 28
  • Votes 19

@Marqus Freeman i have been very pleased with the RentRedi platform, It’s allows the tenet a few options including automatic deposit directly from their phone app and shows up in my account at the same time every month. The platform also provides a decent why to communicate. It’s definitely appeals to the younger tech crowd

Post: Reno / Sparks Nevada Investors and land lords

Dustin SomersPosted
  • Real Estate Agent
  • Sparks, NV
  • Posts 28
  • Votes 19

@Michael Sgandurra  Good to meet you Michael,

My wife and I would love to meet up when you get here.   If you need a real-estate agent or local lender  I have a few that have been good to me in the past and I would recommend. 

Post: Reno / Sparks Nevada Investors and land lords

Dustin SomersPosted
  • Real Estate Agent
  • Sparks, NV
  • Posts 28
  • Votes 19

Good Day Everyone,

I am looking to meet and network with real-estate investors, landlords and alike in the Reno / Sparks area.   I live here locally and would like to create a team and start investing in my local community.  I currently have a few multifamily properties in my portfolio all located in the Southern CA area.  

Post: Property #1 Getting started

Dustin SomersPosted
  • Real Estate Agent
  • Sparks, NV
  • Posts 28
  • Votes 19

Investment Info:

Small multi-family (2-4 units) buy & hold investment in Ridgecrest.

Purchase price: $217,000
Cash invested: $62,000

Duplex Rental Property