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What Else is Contributing to Home Prices?

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What is contributing to your 650 credit score?

It doesn't matter to you which of them contributes what.

My first years I had a lot of uninvested funds because there wasn't enough in the account to buy anything until I could make more contributions.

I hope to contribute as I grow myself and help others.For this discussion, I have a duplex cash flowing $1,500/month with $220k in equity. 

I would bet that the cost of the land is contributing to the $4M cost - although that does still seem high.. but I'm not super familiar with Truckee market. 

When I saw my tax advisor/attorney, he said another option would be to have a separate LLC for each property with a holding company for expenses common to all properties and to make distributions and contributions.

Paseo is a historic street in Kansas City so it's an opportunity to contribute to revitalizing Kansas City.