Tom Hall
is it a good idea to pay of my mortgage fast?
6 January 2025 | 28 replies
But the length of your loan will eventually shorten if you add to it.Start a money market fund account with Schwab or Vanguard and save at 5 or 6%.
Zach Howard
Class C: Personal loan for 200k, should I use it for multiple down payments, or...?
9 January 2025 | 44 replies
I literally started my real estate idea by considering buying property in Japan, but eventually decided that the US made more sense.
Tonio Pearce
Should I create a baseline template business plan?
23 December 2024 | 9 replies
That kind of shoot-from-the-hip approach can be fun for a minute, but it usually ends up like my old buddy Rick’s first deal.. he bought a distressed fourplex in Tucson years back without a real plan, and while he eventually turned it into a solid monthly cash flow, he spent the first six months sleeping with one eye on the tenant ledger, praying the HVAC wouldn’t bail on him after a hot desert day.
Bob Avery
Is SWR the MVP? Blow by blow of a REI newbie reading the STORE -> Best Sellers
20 December 2024 | 0 replies
Eventually I realize that when I think about living on post-expense rental income, I’m treating the income as the “withdrawal rate”, in Boglehead parlance.
Alvin Sylvain
Anybody play this game called "Tenants" on Steam?
24 December 2024 | 9 replies
Because, based on prior experience, we all know that eventually the card will come up where that stock is now selling for $50, and you'll make a KILLING.
Toby Khan
Wichita, KS Investors
9 January 2025 | 107 replies
Or you could keep it as a rental and eventually refi the second property.
Eric Miller
Better to have one $600k property at 70% LTV, or four $300k properties at 95% LTV?
27 December 2024 | 13 replies
It is not really apples to apples, but generally speaking the more money invested the further ahead you will be eventually in the future, just because your compounding base is higher, regardless of where the money comes from - ie, 4 300k properties are 1.2 million on property, which is double the 600k property.
Giacomo Matthew Degl'Innocenti
Decency of treatment and unfair losses
26 December 2024 | 11 replies
I think behind tenant screenings and leases there is a quality of a landlord that's also as a person that is the respect for a good person and the intelligence of making fair affairs.For me for ten years in the past I had a house of 650sqft (two rooms and cozy kitchen) where I always have been giving away one of the room for others who were asking for help for themselves and I didn't had any earnings for me by that, and that has been during for many and many years, meanwhile I was surely needing more space for me, for my business in a studio and for my own personal life I eventually could have been having.Nonetheless this, on last years I had no more an house and I needed a room for rent, but even before any screening the landlords were being unrespectful and very unreasonably severe to me, they often had making me lose so much time by no taking or going away to the point I had no other choices in the end, and they set me in the wrong places for me, dangerous ones, too small, too big and very expensive, unhealthy ones or not providing anything at all when it was obvious they needed to.To me this kind of behaviour is very wrong, mostly because usually they are the same people who pretend respects and acts as they are very careful and attentive to housing situations in general, but with me, they have been lying above anything and just disrespected the person at a human level.
Breeya Johnson
Is Austin, Texas Still A Good Place To Invest?
24 December 2024 | 12 replies
If you have deep pockets, I think Austin will eventually reward you, but if you are a newbie in real estate looking to cash flow positive day one or shortly thereafter, Austin is probably not your best bet in TEXAS.
Alan Asriants
Taking on a major construction project in 2025 - What are some common hurdles?
30 December 2024 | 10 replies
Consider the family who’ll eventually live there..maybe they’ll appreciate a second-floor deck accessible from a common hallway, where everyone can enjoy it, rather than limiting it to a single bedroom.