Maria Jeanette
Advise on leveraging a Self-directed IRA to purchase real estate
9 December 2024 | 11 replies
Real estate's low liquidity can complicate required minimum distributions (RMDs).
Rick Soto
Conventional with seller paid CC and a 3-2-1 buy down or FHA with a 3.5% down
6 December 2024 | 4 replies
This might be better if you’re uncertain about refinancing or want to keep more liquidity for other opportunities.Since you’ll move in 5 years, it really depends on how confident you are about refinancing.
Mindy Jensen
Contractors: If I Buy Materials, Do You Still Need a Downpayment?
31 December 2024 | 66 replies
The customer signs our contract , we get 1 /3 down .Now people tend to thing thats for materials , thats partially right , First it secures you a time frame , if you cancel we keep the deposit as liquidated damages .
Abigail King
Real Estate Investing Books
4 December 2024 | 7 replies
What is everyone's favorite real estate investing books?
Craig Sparling
Chicago vs the world: Forgone opportunities?
13 December 2024 | 18 replies
One of my favorite authors, Nicholas Nassim Taleb, sold me on the concept of Skin in the Game and holding all pundits accountable for prior predictions, myself included.
Thomas Haessig
Which offer should I go with?
8 December 2024 | 9 replies
You can set as many as you like but I like to pick my favorite 5-6 for each time period.
David Robert
Let's talk Cybersecurity!
9 December 2024 | 1 reply
You're the fish.They often use a mix of fear, threat and urgency to push a target to act.It can be as simple as a 24 hours sale from your favorite shop that requires you to log in to your account first or your boss asking you to wire money right now or he/she/they will lose an important contract that will cost millions.So cybersecurity is important because without that, you might have an incident that can cost a lot of money, impact your reputation and might affect your credit score.
Kris Lou
Tired of my money not working for me in Toronto, Canada - looking to diversify in USA
5 December 2024 | 7 replies
It no longer makes sense to buy here.Anyways, we are in the process of liquidating most of our assets here and our plan is to start buying in Indiana.
Chris Yeung
Investing in Norada Funding's notes
19 December 2024 | 55 replies
(e-commerce company that was looking into bankruptcy last year, mastermind businesses, putting on broadway type musicals, including one about Neil Diamond) Their website is fairly opaque as to how they generate their profits in order to pay note investors the very high yields they offer, 14-23%.