if STRs are something you're interested in, then house hack an STR.do not start with a random $11K course.

Random question: has anyone cashed out their retirement (or part of it) to invest in real estate?

If I were you I’d pick a market and become an expert on it.

I see some lenders out there would just pick the "lowest" rate and the client ends up paying more than 1% of the loan amount at their closing costs. 

Of you can relocate and house hack, I highly recommend that so you give up less cash upfront.Good job not spending your stack on some bad *** pick em up truck or other nonsense young people would otherwise spend it on! 

You'll quickly see why AI is not the solution here... not only will it give you a random number from a site that posted it, but it will hallucinate and draw quirky assumptions into the mix like oh based on this % appreciation and applying it forward/backward, etc.

I'm in the processes of picking up a 20-pack of studio's around the same threshold.

The setup for a bullish Spring real estate season is palpable.Let’s get into it.Project Update: North Nashville Duplex Construction has begun on a cozy duplex I picked up in North Nashville a couple months ago, a lovely little transitioning neighborhood just an 8-min Uber to downtown (yes “cozy” is real estate parlance for small, but it will be cozy!).

The number of showings has definitely picked up since the election and we are hopeful we will have something soon. 

I remember chatting with a good friend of mine, Jared, who once picked up a quirky three-story in Somerville to rent short-term.